While living in Shanghai for many years, there are still many edges of the city that have not been visited, and even quite a few? The city's famous monuments? I've never visited them. In this regard, he set a goal: with a few years time, the Shanghai territory has not seen the recognized? Sights and Monuments" to visit once, and use pictures and words to record it. Because my relatives live in Hongkou, and I have been going there often for many years, I am quite familiar with the buildings and facilities in this area, so I visited the 1933 Workshop on Liyang Road in Hongkou District first in early spring.
If you notice that this reinforced concrete building has gone through the vicissitudes of more than 80 years, and is still so complete and strong, you can't help but admire the quality of the building construction back then. It is important to realize that the intensity of daily use of an abattoir of this size is not comparable to that of an ordinary building in general. This is still a wet and have multiple pollution working environment Back then the contractor of this building, a Chinese construction company, while cement and other building materials are imported.
Built in 1933, the former Shanghai Bureau of Public Works? The Zaijiachang, designed by a British architect, is now a city-protected building (Grade: Category IV). The building covers an area of about 30,000 square meters, with a 5-story reinforced concrete structure. The fa?ade along the street is made of openwork small square windows, which is said to be in the style of ancient Rome, Basilica. It is said to be in the ancient Roman-Basilica style. The adjacent small building is the former meat market and cold storage building. It was called the "First Sacrifice Farm of the Far East" in the old days. the first slaughterhouse in the Far East. Similar size and style of the building in the United States and the United Kingdom each have one.
This is the ramp up to the building, which used to be used by animals such as cows and goats to get to the ghost gate. We have to go around a little
This building structure seems so bizarre, in fact, for the comprehensive consideration of the building of the slaughter of animals in the aisle, slaughter work surface, ventilation and lighting, sanitation, isolation, waterways and so on. And never for the sake of ? Romantic?
Here is a special note: a cow in Shanghai in the 30s, a dream place to come to the slaughterhouse? The first time I saw a cow in Shanghai in the 1930s, it was slaughtered in a farm. Because of this year's modern slaughterhouse, killing cows never? Bloodshed? with an electric shock! Of course, this is not mercy, but for the sake of efficiency.
The British architect must have had a hard time planning such a complex cow path and balancing function and structure. So, today, the construction of the so-called ? Creative Industrial Park? is also considered to be a "creative industrial park". Make the best use of it? Right. Otherwise, this kind of building structure, really very people can live and adapt.
Photo caption This is a confinement room for sick cows in the building. The confinement room? With today's eyes, such a simple confinement room, there is no way to ensure the isolation effect of sick cattle carrying infectious diseases. You have to realize that some of the virulent infectious diseases of humans and animals **** are very dangerous! You only have to think about why in trade frictions between countries are often associated with a high threshold of immunization in the meat trade, and you'll understand.
Also of interest: these door panels with the door parts, I think the originals survived from the early years, right?
After 1843, as the Shanghai Concession continued to expand the more populous. The demand for meat products expanded dramatically. And that year, the folk small workshop facilities are simple, poor hygiene, there are often epidemics. Many people and animals **** born of virulent infectious diseases at that time no antibiotics and other medical means, the epidemic will be very dangerous and very difficult to control!
In order to meet the market demand and public **** health, responsible for the management of public **** in the Concession of the Bureau of Public Works previously built slaughterhouses, but far from being able to meet the demand. The Bureau of Public Works set up a slaughterhouse here in 1891, and in 1930 it was expanded into an industrialized slaughterhouse designed by a British architect, whose bizarre internal structure was actually to meet functional needs. In November, 1933, the newly built slaughterhouse was completed. At the time it was known as the first in the Far East and the third in the world
Image caption This building opposite this baroque style three-storey reinforced concrete structure building, is the Eid al-Adha waste treatment plant, the disposal and incineration of diseased animals, waste meat, offal, hair and other wastes, the middle of the roof towering chimneys are inside the high-pressure steam furnace, used to melt anthrax carcasses of livestock and other dangerous livestock carcasses, but also processed soaps, fodder, Fertilizer and so on. And when the slaughterhouse was built here, the slaughter of animals to and from the production process of pollution, treatment of waste sources of the chimney This can be imagined on the surrounding residents of the environmental pressure.
Photo caption: The building now houses a number of stores, and advertising agencies and other copywriting and design units in this office. Although it is a day off, there appear to be very few visitors to the building.
According to available material, the slaughterhouse slaughtered 300 cows, 500 sheep, 200 calves and 300 pigs a day that year. Upon entering the farm, the animals were inspected and then given a 24-hour rest before being electrocuted through a multi-storey special ramp and trap-like gate in the building into the processing room. This slaughter livestock will not be due to nervous panic, the body will discharge less toxins, can improve the taste of meat?
After the founding of New China, this place is still meat food processing plant. 1970 changed to the Shanghai Great Wall Biochemical Pharmaceutical Factory. 2004, Hongkou District Government will be listed as a district historical site memorial; October 2005, by the municipal government as the city's outstanding historical buildings; in 2007, in the preservation of the original building on the basis of the layout of the re-construction, remodeled as the ?1933 old field Square? Creative Industry Park. Now the building is mostly a creative center, advertising agencies, leisure bar tea and other places. But according to the author's observation, visitors are sparse and not many. It is a quieter place to go.
Talking about Hongkou when built by the Concession Bureau of such public **** building there are many, such as: the famous Triangle food court, East Hanyang Road, next to the large cold storage (after the liberation of the Shanghai Municipal District is to protect the supply of by-products, such as meat, poultry, eggs and fish, such as an important major cold storage) and so on.
But now they have all been demolished. In addition, Hongkou Tilanqiao area left in the early years of the architectural landscape, but also in the past few years all have been demolished flat! East Changzhi Road along the Huangpu River line of the former port warehouses and office buildings, etc. have also been almost completely demolished! In between, some of the quality of the building is still good really quite flavorful. As the saying goes: architecture, is frozen history. Look at the old downtown of major cities in other countries, which has this scale of demolition and construction of the courage?
Photo caption Shanghai's old town has its own unique flavor, and this ageing watercolorist is sketching near the 1933 Workshop. s 1933 Workshop neighborhood.
The author saw that he used large brushstrokes, wet and dry techniques, and quickly laid out the general tone of the picture, and knew that this must be a master of sketching techniques for many years. Can come here to choose the scene to pick the wind, is not he on the old Shanghai in the past some special feelings? Then, in front of such an old city of Shanghai should be retained some more?