Elizabeth Apartments, Shanghai

The problem with trees is, they grow! While that is the bane of Art Deco photographer they do make the streets of the French Concession lovely and cool in a somewhat hot and dusty Shanghai. Glimpsed through the leaves of a Plane tree, this is Elizabeth Apartments from 1930.

These triangle windows are great and remind me of similar windows on the houses in Silver End in Essex, England, including Wolverton and the former Dental and Medical Chambers in Hastings, New Zealand.

Reference:
Shanghai Art Deco by Tess Johnston & Deke Erh - Old China Hand Press - 2006