Coming Down Alert – Shaanxi and Nanchang

Back in January 2010 I noted the imminent demise of the building on the corner of Shaanxi Road and Nanchang Road (Avenue Roi Albert and Route Dolfus) in the former French Concession. That building has now gone as part of the blanding of the area around the old Xiang Yang Market, now some rather uninteresting tower block offices and the disjointed line 10 bit of the Shaanxi Lu subway station. Let these photos serve notice on the officials, estate agents and naive foreigners in Shanghai who keep telling me that there won’t be any more destruction on the former French Concession – the vandalism goes on pretty much unabated.

Here’s a couple of pictures of the building when it was first being cleared out but was still structurally intact and perfectly suited to restoration and refit

and here’s the empty gap that exists now the building has gone forever….