The Bund Weather Signal Station
🌟Signal station height:
Originally known as the Yangjingbang Weather Signal Station, the cylindrical brick and concrete weather tower has a total height of 50 meters and a tower height of 36.8 meters.
👍Architectural style:
Known as 'Alonobo' style architecture, it is one of the only two Alonobo style buildings in the world. Designed by Mathis, it is a reinforced concrete structure. A wind vane is installed on the top.
❤Architectural features:
The exterior of the building is decorated with horizontal stripes of red and gray, made of cement. There are curved buttress columns around, the top of the second floor windows are semi-circular arches, protruding above the eaves, forming a semi-circular crenellated parapet. The iron balcony railings and wooden door decorations all have a distinct European Art Nouveau style. The Bund Weather Signal Station consists of a brick clock about 4 meters high and a wooden pole at the top with a time ball and storm flag, making it one of the earliest signal stations in Asia and the Pacific region.
✅Historical heritage:
In 1865, a weather observation station was established.
In 1883, a weather signal tower was established, which was one of the earliest signal stations in the Asia-Pacific region at the time.
In 1884, the Xujiahui Observatory was established by the French Catholic Church.
In 1907, a cylindrical reinforced concrete signal tower was rebuilt, 50 meters high, known as the tallest tower in the Far East.
In 1927, an observatory skirt room was added, forming the current tower and room integrated building.
In 1953, it became the Shanghai Maritime Police Station.
In 1993, during the Bund renovation project, it was moved 20 meters eastward as a whole and changed to the Bund History Exhibition Room.
In 1994, it became a Shanghai Excellent Historical Building.
📍Detailed address:
No. 1A, East Zhongshan Second Road