Broadway Mansions
The Broadway Mansions is "a brick patterned Art Deco apartment block...[that] would not have looked out of place in Manhattan", and is an example of the Art Deco or Streamline Moderne style of architecture that emerged in the 1920s and flourished in the 1930s The Broadway Mansions is a steel-framed red brick building "in the stepped skyscraper mode", that is in height, with a total floor space of . Steel-framed structures were used in Shanghai from 1916 onwards, originally for eight- to ten-story buildings, but by the 1930s, for up to twenty-four stories. The building's floor plan was modeled after the Chinese character for the number eight, which is a symbol of luck and prosperity. The facade of the Broadway Mansions was one of its distinctive features. The design of the Mansions was "influenced by modernism," and like "most apartment buildings in Shanghai featured a simple and modern style of exterior."