花园饭店 / Garden Hotel Shanghai

Overview

花园饭店 appears in the episode as a major Lai An building and as the former French Club, combining neoclassical exterior authority with a more modern interior.

Current Profile

The source treats Garden Hotel as one of Lai An’s strongest durability and style examples. Wu Feipeng says the building opened on 1926-01-01 after a 1923 design process and used extensive fir-pile foundations. Its exterior needed formal, government-adjacent classicism, while its interior spaces, including the second-floor hall and east-building lobby, are interpreted as modernist and Art Deco in spirit.

Key Characteristics

• Garden Hotel is used as evidence of Lai An’s construction-quality standards.
• It combines exterior neoclassicism with interior modernist and Art Deco design.
• Its site history includes the French Club and earlier tennis courts.
• Its lost swimming pool becomes an example of modernist heritage vulnerability.

Evidence

• Construction evidence: 498 寻找赉安：为近代上海梧桐区创造风貌的法国建筑师 says Lai An used thousands of fir piles for the foundation and that the building remained in strong condition.
• Style evidence: 498 寻找赉安：为近代上海梧桐区创造风貌的法国建筑师 distinguishes the formal neoclassical exterior from the more modern interior design.
• Memory evidence: 498 寻找赉安：为近代上海梧桐区创造风貌的法国建筑师 notes that an Olympic-standard swimming pool once associated with the site was demolished in the 1980s.

Qualifications

The page is bounded to the episode’s description and does not verify the full building chronology independently.

What Changed

• Created a building page for Garden Hotel as a Lai An work and preservation example.

Relationships

• 赉安 / 赖安 / Lai An (architect) - architect credited in the source.
• Shanghai French Concession Architecture / 上海法租界建筑 - architectural context.
• Shanghai Art Deco Architecture / 上海装饰艺术派建筑 - interior style branch.
• Modernist Heritage Recognition Gap / 现代主义遗产识别落差 - concept illustrated by the demolished swimming pool.