Facade Researches On Heritage Architecture Along East Suzhou River

Most of the developed city in the world has one or two rivers flowing across, like Seine in Paris, Thames River in London, Hudson River in New York, Danube in Vienna etc. Shanghai's mother river is Suzhou River, which runs across the middle of downtown from west to east and is always in an important place from ancient till now, especially in the modern time. Important location and special history gave birth to abundant culture and lots of heritage architecture, especially in the east part.The facades of these buildings originate from history, represent images of the city,bear the emotional cultural heritage of people, and have high architectural values as well as commercial values. However,in contemporary period, they doesn't get enough attention. The building materials and the maintenance of them are in quite bad position.Systematic researches on them will afford...