盖斯康公寓 / Gascoigne Apartments

Overview

盖斯康公寓 is one of the Lai An-designed Shanghai apartment buildings used in the episode to show the modernity, hierarchy, and high-end residential organization of former French Concession housing.

Current Profile

The episode describes Gascoigne Apartments as visually modern and almost time-displacing near Huaihai Middle Road. It also presents the building as a high-grade apartment with differentiated floors, large upper-level units, service circulation, separate domestic-worker routes, and a vehicle turnaround, making class and service structure visible in spatial design.

Key Characteristics

• Gascoigne Apartments is treated as a representative Lai An apartment work.
• Its visual form is described as unusually modern for old Shanghai.
• Its plan reflects high-end residential hierarchy and service infrastructure.
• Its post-1945 residents included Americans and consular or diplomatic personnel.

Evidence

• Identification 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 Wu’s Lai An search began when French contacts identified Gascoigne Apartments as a Lai An work.
• Spatial evidence: 498 寻找赉安：为近代上海梧桐区创造风貌的法国建筑师 describes smaller lower units, larger upper units, one-elevator-one-household floors, servant stairs/elevators, and vehicle circulation.
• 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 treats the building as one of the clues that made Lai An newly visible to Wu Feipeng.

Qualifications

The page uses the episode’s naming and account. It does not independently resolve the building’s full official English or French name.

What Changed

• Created a source-bounded building page for Gascoigne Apartments.

Relationships

• 赉安 / 赖安 / Lai An (architect) - architect credited in the source.
• Shanghai French Concession Architecture / 上海法租界建筑 - urban architecture context.
• Modernist Architecture / 现代主义建筑 - style context for the building’s perceived modernity.
• Architectural Archive Research / 建筑档案研究 - research path that made the building part of Lai An’s confirmed corpus.