People · architect
Palmer & Turner
公和洋行
Hong Kong architectural practice, in Shanghai from 1912 as 公和洋行; designed more Bund buildings than any other firm, including HSBC and Sassoon House.
Palmer & Turner (公和洋行, Gōnghé Yángháng) is a Hong Kong architectural practice whose origins go back to an office opened there in 1868; it took the names of partners Clement Palmer and Arthur Turner in the 1890s. The firm opened a Shanghai branch in 1912 under George Wilson and adopted the Chinese name 公和洋行. Over the next 25 years it designed more of the Bund than any other practice, including the Yangtze Insurance, Glen Line, HSBC, Chartered Bank and Yokohama Specie Bank buildings, Sassoon House and, with Luke Him Sau, the Bank of China. It continues today as P&T Group.
Connections
- E. D. Sassoon & Co.新沙逊洋行Palmer & Turner designed Sassoon House and its other Shanghai towers
- Sir Victor Sassoon维克多·沙逊Palmer & Turner designed his Shanghai towers
Places
Building· c. 1936–1937
Bank of China Building
中国银行大楼Zhōngguó Yínháng Dàlóu
The Bank of China's 1937 head office at Bund 23: a 17-storey tower by Luke Him Sau with a blue-tiled Chinese roof, cut down from a planned 34 storeys.
Building· 1930–1934
Broadway Mansions
上海大厦Shànghǎi Dàshà
Brown-brick Art Deco tower of 1934 at the north end of Waibaidu Bridge, built as a hotel and apartments for foreigners; renamed Shanghai Mansions in 1951.
Building· 1922–1923
Chartered Bank Building (Bund 18)
麦加利银行大楼Màijiālì Yínháng Dàlóu
Five-storey Chartered Bank of 1922–1923 by Palmer & Turner, restored in 2002–2004 as Bund 18, a complex of shops, restaurants, bars and an art space.
Building· 1925–1927
Customs House
上海海关大楼Shànghǎi Hǎiguān Dàlóu
Shanghai's 1927 Customs House by Palmer & Turner, whose clock tower, with a Joyce clock first struck in 1928, still sounds the hours over the Bund.
Building· 1920–1922
Glen Line Building
格林邮船大楼Gélín Yóuchuán Dàlóu
1922 shipping office by Palmer & Turner at Bund No. 28; later the US consulate and Shanghai's radio station, now the Shanghai Clearing House.
Building· 1921–1923
HSBC Building
上海浦东发展银行大楼Shànghǎi Pǔdōng Fāzhǎn Yínháng Dàlóu
Palmer & Turner's 1923 head office for HSBC, the widest building on the Bund, with a mosaic dome hidden under paint from 1956 to 1997; now SPD Bank.
Building· 1935
Jin Jiang Hotel
锦江饭店Jǐnjiāng Fàndiàn
Two Sassoon apartment towers of 1929 and 1935, a state guesthouse since 1951 and the place where the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué was signed.
Building· 1926–1929
Sassoon House (Fairmont Peace Hotel)
沙逊大厦Shāxùn Dàshà
Victor Sassoon's 1929 granite tower with the green copper pyramid, home of the Cathay Hotel and since 1956 the Peace Hotel, now run by Fairmont.
Building· 1916
Three on the Bund (Union Building)
有利大楼Yǒulì Dàlóu
Shanghai's first steel-framed building (1916) and Palmer & Turner's first Bund work, rebuilt by Michael Graves in 2004 as Three on the Bund.
Building· c. 1917–1920
Yangtze Insurance Building
扬子大楼Yángzǐ Dàlóu
1920 office of the Yangtsze Insurance Association at Bund No. 26 by Palmer & Turner, with a mansard roof; now the Agricultural Bank of China.
Building· 1923–1924
Yokohama Specie Bank Building
横滨正金银行大楼Héngbīn Zhèngjīn Yínháng Dàlóu
The 1924 Shanghai branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank at Bund No. 24, by Palmer & Turner, with a samurai and a bodhisattva on the facade; now ICBC.
Stories
Sources
- 1.Chinese Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (中文维基百科), Wikimedia Foundation — https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/公和洋行; https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/公和洋行 — works tablewikipedia
- 2.English Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (English Wikipedia), Wikimedia Foundation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%26T_Groupwikipedia
- 3.Shanghai Bund Buildings series, part 12: Glen Line Building and Banque de l'Indochine Building (《上海外滩建筑群》系列推送第十二期 ‖ 格林邮船大楼&东方汇理银行大楼), 上海城建档案（上海市城市建设档案馆）, 澎湃新闻·澎湃号, 2024 — https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_25989865 — 格林邮船大楼 建筑设计：〔英〕公和洋行archive