Shanghai Architecture Archive 海上建筑志

ARCHIVE № 001 An illustrated field guide to Shanghai

A city is more than a map.Read between its lines.

Wander through the Bund, Wukang Road, and Yuyuan Road. Discover the eras, people, and stories behind each façade—and build a Shanghai archive of your own.

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今日建筑 TODAY · 001
A hand-drawn illustration of Wukang Mansion

№ 024 · 1924

Wukang Mansion

WUKANG MANSION
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A CITY, READ ONE FACADE AT A TIME

ABOUT · THE ARCHIVE

See a building.
Read a city.

This is not a navigation tool or another checklist of sights. Shanghai Architecture Archive turns the bricks, balconies, and street corners around us into a field guide you can read, wander through, and make your own. Every stop is a new way into the city.

EXPERIENCE · HOW IT WORKS

A field guide that responds to where you are

Find a building on the map, read its archive, then follow a curated chapter that connects scattered places into a richer urban story.

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Discover on the map

Explore the Bund, Wukang Road, and Yuyuan Road through a quiet native map designed around architecture—not distractions.

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Read it like a book

Move from a one-minute introduction to timelines, notable residents, transformations, and the stories that made each building matter.

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Wander by theme

Banking façades, the apartment age, gardens and former homes—editorial chapters reveal the history connecting one street to the next.

An illustrated map of the Wukang Road neighborhood
CHAPTER 02 · ROUTE MAP Wukang Road and the Apartment Age 10 buildings · 14 min read · 70 min walk

CHAPTERS · CURATED WALKS

Turn scattered landmarks into a story of the city.

Each chapter is a carefully edited reading route. Understand how the neighborhood came to be, then take those clues out into the real city.

  1. 01The Financial Façades of the Bund9 buildings
  2. 02Wukang Road and the Apartment Age10 buildings
  3. 03Gardens and Former Homes of Yuyuan Road8 buildings
An illustrated façade of Shanghai Custom House
01Custom House · 1927
An illustrated façade of Blackstone Apartments
02Blackstone Apartments · 1924
An illustrated façade of Sassoon House
03Sassoon House · 1929

COLOPHON · OUR PRINCIPLES

Quiet by design. Private by default.

We want the app to feel like a book worth returning to, not a product competing for attention. There are no accounts and no third-party analytics. Your reading history and collection stay on your device.

  • [01]No personal data collected
  • [02]One purchase, no subscription
  • [03]An archive that keeps growing
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FIRST EDITION · VOLUME ONE

Take a little Shanghai on your next walk.

Shanghai Architecture Archive is now available on the App Store. Take this field guide with you and begin reading Shanghai, one building at a time.

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