The apartment building is on a quite tree-lined street in the former French Concession of Shanghai. The AL inset in the terrazzo of the lobby floor is because the apartment was designed in 1941 by the architecture firm Leonard, Veysseyre and Kruze, and A. The buildings current name is Gao An Apartments, from the street on which it is located (the former Route Cohen).
Like almost every old apartment building in Shanghai, most of the garages have been converted into living quarters-but unlike most of the city’s apartment buildings, the long curving south-facing balconies have been filled in, thus preserving the buildings sweeping streamline façade, mercifully free of added aluminum window frames and smoked glass. Each of the buildings apartments features an imaginative layout that takes maximum advantage of the buildings corner location.
The unit available for lease is on the 6^th floor, two bedrooms, 2bathrooms, central AC and a huge personal terrace with an amazing view over the surrounding area.