Eight grand stories and many more tales

Witnesses to history and those who care about preserving it are ensuring that one corner of a city, and many others like it, are not lost forever

Like the bow of a great ship, it sits there at the corner of two city streets that form a 30 degree apex where they meet, and it rises eight stories.

We are standing outside a building that some say is named after a French World War I era battleship, fitting enough given that the Normandie Apartments in Shanghai could not be more anchored to their past.