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Historic Shanghai on Shanghai’s Hazelwood – Butterfield & Swire taipan’s mansion

Posted: February 20th, 2017 | 1 Comment »

Today I suggest you read Historic Shanghai’s history of Hazelwood, the old Butterfield and Swire taipan’s house now on the grounds of the Radisson Xingguo Hotel…marvellous that it’s survived, important architecturally and by a favourite architect and architectural critic of mine Clough Williams-Ellis (of Portmerion fame)….

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One Comment on “Historic Shanghai on Shanghai’s Hazelwood – Butterfield & Swire taipan’s mansion”

  1. 1 Patrick Cranley said at 9:16 am on February 22nd, 2017:

    Thanks for the link, Paul. Keep Rhyming!

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