Ramos Apartments
Archivos
Citación
“Ramos Apartments,” Archivo China España, 1800-1950, consulta 17 de noviembre de 2024, http://ace.uoc.edu/items/show/1142.
Título
Ramos Apartments
Fecha
1924
Descripción
Designed by Spanish architect Abelardo Lafuente in North Sichuan Road (present day 2081-2093) for his friend and patron the cinema impresario Antonio Ramos.
The building is composed around four different staircases, with two apartments in each floor. A fourth floor was added later to the original three. The apartments, which open to the front and back facades, are organized around inner courtyards in the back, a typical element in Spanish architecture seldom used in China and which bestows the building its historical and architectonic interest.
Today, a board in the facade identifies the building as a cultural asset for its architectonic value and the fact that writer Lu Xun lived in the third floor in the 1930s.
The building is composed around four different staircases, with two apartments in each floor. A fourth floor was added later to the original three. The apartments, which open to the front and back facades, are organized around inner courtyards in the back, a typical element in Spanish architecture seldom used in China and which bestows the building its historical and architectonic interest.
Today, a board in the facade identifies the building as a cultural asset for its architectonic value and the fact that writer Lu Xun lived in the third floor in the 1930s.
Fuente
LEONARDO PÉREZ, Álvaro (2019). Abelardo Lafuente García-Rojo (1871-1931), un arquitecto español en China (Madrid: Universidad Alcalá de Henares, unpublished PhD thesis), pp.391-394.
Editor
Álvaro Leonardo Pérez