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Wudec English Country House | No. 64, Urumqi South Road (1661)

|No.64, Urumqi South Road (1661). The building at No. 64 Urumqi South Road was built in 1932 by the famous designer Wu Daqian. It has a rigorous design, a reasonable layout, and just the right amount of detail decoration and treatment, reflecting the designer's personal design concepts and skills. It is also a typical representative of British country residential style architecture and is now a cultural relic protection site in Xuhui District. The building adopts a fake three-story brick and wood structure with a construction area of ​​541.6 square meters. There is a half-exposed wooden frame on the facade, and the walls are red walls with white windows. The building has a steep roof covered with red machine-made tiles and has dormer windows to let light into the attic, all of which are obvious visual features of English country houses. The front facade of this garden house adopts an asymmetrical layout, with a protruding semi-hexagonal wood-framed glass door at the entrance, continuous arched window openings, gray cement door and window frames, and corbel supports underneath. After the founding of New China, No. 64 Urumqi was used as the office of Xuhui District Sports Bureau. The Xuhui District No. 1 Sports School located here has always been the cradle of tennis elites. Since the establishment of the first city youth tennis team, it has sent many outstanding tennis players to the whole country. As the earliest hard court in Shanghai, there used to be 9 sand courts here. It was also the first dedicated training venue for the Shanghai Tennis Team after its establishment and hosted many high-quality competitions. In 2017, the local authorities decided to renovate the cultural relic building and transform it into a public space, opening it to residents.
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