People · architect
Marti
马第
Architect whose design for the concrete Gutzlaff Signal Tower on the Bund was chosen by the French Municipal Council in 1906 and built in 1907–08.
Marti (马第, Mǎdì) is the architect named in the Shanghai gazetteer as the designer of the Gutzlaff Signal Tower. The French Municipal Council chose his reinforced-concrete design in 1906 over a rival scheme by a railway engineer, signed the contract in February 1907, and the tower was built in 1907–08. Wikipedia articles identify him as Spanish but disagree on his full name, so it is left as the gazetteer gives it.
Places
Building· 1907–1908
Gutzlaff Signal Tower
外滩信号台Wàitān Xìnhàotái
The 1907–08 concrete weather and time-signal tower at the south end of the Bund, moved 22.4 m in 1993 to widen the road; now a history display and café.
Sources
- 1.The Shanghai Bund Signal Tower (Shanghai Local Gazetteer journal, 1994 no. 2) (上海外滩信号台（《上海地方志》1994年第二期）), 朱卓昉、丁硕人, 上海市地方志办公室, 1994 — section 三, paragraph beginning 外滩信号台的木桅杆曾先后gazetteer
- 2.English Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (English Wikipedia), Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzlaff_Signal_Towerwikipedia
- 3.Chinese Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (中文维基百科), Wikimedia Foundation — https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/外滩信号台wikipedia