What grade is your community？ Just look at the facade.

The original name is lujun and the team name is lujun.

Must a good project have a good facade?

Not necessarily/maybe

Even many of our common good products, no matter how expensive the label is and how exquisite the garden is, can be seen from the facade at first sight.

Is still plain

What about the other way around?

For those projects that can have a good facade, does it necessarily represent the high quality of the real estate behind them?

Maybe after reading this article today, you will have an answer.

"I look at two points when I buy second-hand, one is the diversion of people and cars, and the other is the facade of the building."

This is a sentence from my little brother who sat at the table next to me at lunch, which surprised me. Speaking of choosing a second-hand house by the facade.

If it’s between the old and the small and the new house

One side is a painted wall, and the exposed air conditioner is also mixed with clothes racks and wires.

On one side, it is dry hanging stone+real stone paint, and the white wall is matched with light green glass, which is simple and luxurious.

The gap is naturally obvious, but it is a bit hasty to judge only by "face value"

And all this is not as real as the facade.

So I personally visited the faç ades of 10 second-hand buildings in Shanghai and found that although they were only faç ades,

But behind the material, post-maintenance

The conscience of a residential developer and even the quality of the owners can be seen from the facade.

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The premise of a good facade is actually a good design.

Yan value is justice.

Perhaps I have seen more real estates, and I am beginning to believe this sentence more and more.

For example, the value of the facade of the building

I don’t know if you have the feeling that there seem to be fewer and fewer good facades in second-hand houses.

The facade of the second-hand house that we usually see on the streets of Shanghai.

It’s probably all like this

The four directions are quite satisfactory. Although the stone may be dry-hung and the facade is relatively new, we won’t have too many surprises from the visual sense.

But today this is different.

Show you a casual glimpse of me in Lujiazui.

The picture of being stopped.

Such a white and flawless facade, such a warm and jade-like feeling.

The aesthetic feeling of the building comes out at once.

Come closer.

A smooth curve along the border

Under the sunshine, there is a sparkling and smart beauty.

It’s really unforgettable

I believe that on these two pictures, friends who are familiar with the Shanghai property market must have guessed that this is the Jiulu, where Shanghai was second-lighted.

The reason why this effect can be achieved is precisely because of a large number of designs in the early stage.

Different from the same vertical facade, Jiulu adopted the streamlined design of ribbon GRC.

At a distance, it has a strong recognition.

And the corner of this circular arc can’t be made by other ordinary materials, and only the ceramic plate can show the effect.

Especially such a look-up angle

Image source: Top luxury world

The roundness and straightness of architectural lines can coexist, and the layering of the facade is very obvious.

Including the fence, are also made into white arcs.

This should be considered as one of the best architectural aesthetics in Shanghai real estate production projects in recent years.

If it is not carefully designed from the beginning, it will not present such a level of facade and such a beautiful architectural curve.

And such careful planning, I also saw in another project.

Shanghai Greentown Huangpu Bay

How about it?

If you don’t say it, will you think that this is a high-end office building?

It can be seen that the facade of Huangpu Bay is made of the "diamond canopy" design of modern glass exterior wall, and the all-glass facade.

Let the whole building stand like a crystal tower in Central Park.

Image source: Shanghai Luxury House Yipin

Even the north that developers are most likely to overlook.

Compared with the office building next to it, it is by no means inferior.

So do you think the facade value of a building is important?

We say that there may be no reason for the mediocrity of a project, but the beauty of a project must be the accumulation of thousands of details and the effect presented after careful planning.

And if the design is only external intervention in advance.

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Of course, the most essential thing is to have a good facade.

When it comes to the new housing market in Shanghai today, the combination of aluminum plate and glass should be regarded as the operation of higher quality housing.

But these luxury houses below, they all have to move back collectively

The most obvious one.

Called: Mansion = Stone.

For a long time in the past, the faç ades of the top luxury products in Shanghai were basically occupied by stone, which even had a profound impact on the faç ades of houses in the future.

Take the two communities I saw next door to Huangpu Bay in Greentown as an example.

Earlier, it opened in 2011, and the China Resources Bund with an all-stone facade was nine miles.

The neoclassical style is adopted, which permeates the rich aesthetics of ancient buildings.

Even its bottom business, also achieved all-stone package.

If you look closely, there are European-style stone pillars and waistlines, which are very exquisite and layered.

And this is not the only one who likes to use stone.

Including Sunac Bund No.1 Courtyard across the street.

Shang Feng Mansion in Qiantan

It is also an all-stone facade, which shows a unique texture under the sunlight.

The faç ade texture of these two communities is very good, which is not easy for most developers to do here.

Then I’ll tell you, even if it’s all stone dry hanging.

The facade can also be changed and refined.

This is the Philippe Cartier on the Bund in Pudong, Yang.

Not only is the YEATION used as a material, but the material of the overall facade is not satisfied with stone, but rare materials such as white jade stone are selected.

Let me show you two little details.

The eaves of every balcony on the side are overhanging.

Just like the exquisite eaves of a new Chinese style, it gives you a sense of hierarchy.

Including the side of the building.

Does the picture look clean, too

In addition to the detailed grid lines of the wall stone, look carefully at all the equipment rooms, which are integrated with the building.

And if the use of stone laid the luxury and weight of the facade, it represents the extreme investment side of the Shanghai property market.

Then in addition, there is another trend that is suddenly emerging, and that is the facade style of luxury houses.

Is moving from heavy to lighter.

For example, it was delivered in 2021, and the Jiugongge in Qiantan carried the handle, and Sanxiang impressed the famous mansion.

The metal aluminum plate is used.

Combination of hard aluminum plate and transparent glass

Not only makes the building facade more scientific and technological.

The lighting is also good, and it is also convenient to watch the river view of Qiantan, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

But don’t forget, besides the material and design sense, there is another key factor that affects the facade effect with the baptism of time.

Is the later property maintenance.

Especially for the light-colored facade and super high-rise, the cleaning difficulty can be imagined.

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Therefore, behind a good facade, good management is indispensable.

We say that a facade can last forever.

A very important reason lies in daily cleaning.

Do you think the cleaning of the faç ade is simple?

Let me show you a picture I accidentally took when I stepped on the plate.

This is a worker, in the cold winter wind, hanging only a slender safety rope, hanging in the air to clean the facade.

Looking up at the height of more than 30 stories, my legs are shaking on the ground.

However, it is not easy to maintain the facade in the later stage because of the material resources and manpower consumed behind the facade cleaning and the safety risks.

No matter how beautiful the face value is, it needs more maintenance, and so does the facade.

So I deliberately selected several properties that have been delivered for a period of time to see if they can still be beautiful without discount after years of baptism.

Let’s look at the first one, Shanghai Greentown delivered in 2004.

This is also the first project of Greentown Group in Shanghai, and the first picture I took when I entered the Greentown community.

The color of stone imported from Italy also broke through the tradition of product facade at that time.

Showing a strong neoclassical style

It’s hard to imagine a community with a room age of nearly 20 years if you don’t see it with your own eyes

Can still present such a texture

The reason behind this is actually Greentown’s maintenance of beauty.

Greentown property staff told me that the facade is regularly cleaned three or four times a year, and the owners of Greentown are also very concerned about the value of the facade of their community.

Choose not to seal the balcony

Can also do this.

Of course, Renheng’s property is indispensable, and it is also famous in the industry.

I chose a second-hand project delivered by Renheng in 2005: Renheng Riverside Garden.

In fact, we have said a lot about the details of this project, so I won’t go into details with you. Today I will tell you about the facade of this project.

Many people will find Renheng’s house more attractive.

In fact, the logic of looking good is that the overall color of the facade is warmer, and the material of the facade is made of customized tiles, so it is very resistant to dirt.

Let’s zoom in at an angle.

And the facade and the color of the glass play a good combination, so it looks very comfortable.

Such beauty is naturally inseparable from the participation of the property. It is said that the facade of Renheng will be cleaned once a quarter.

And the whole residential property, Renheng, firmly refused to seal the balcony.

Only a few households have done this, and Renheng will even file a lawsuit with the owner to demand the restoration of the balcony facade.

It is precisely because of this almost paranoid insistence.

It also shows the refreshing and tidy facade of the whole project, and the community swimming pool can be well maintained for many years.

Every outdoor activity of users, what they can see is also such a beautiful facade.

This concept is also infiltrating into Renheng’s updated community.

The Fifth Generation International Community: Renheng Park Century

The facade is a combination of aluminum plate and dry hanging stone, with simple shape and distinct lines.

When you look at it from a distance, it will always give you a sense of tall and straight architecture.

more importantly

It should be a difficult thing for many communities in Shanghai to do.

Just like Greentown, everyone is very concerned about their faç ade, and they are also firmly implementing the policy of not sealing the balcony.

In fact, it is also related to the owners themselves.

Therefore, such a clean and tidy beauty can last for so many years, but it is actually the joint participation and love of all people that can be preserved.

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Ok, let’s look back.

Why do we choose a second-hand house to see the facade?

This is a small incision, but it is also the most direct factor that can peek at the quality of real estate.

Compared with the garden-like tour of showing second-hand houses for several hours at a time, the facade of a second-hand residential area is good.

1, can not do without the developer’s preliminary design, willing to spend the cost to pay for the design.

2, need their own facade materials, simple paint must be better than stone, or metal aluminum plate.

3, also want to have a good property, willing to invest in maintenance and cleaning for a long time, including the quality of your neighbors in the future, can also feel it.

So you see, around this little problem,

We can see the investment and intention of the developers. Similarly, for the owners, can everyone agree to be responsible for the faç ade of their own community?

Behind a good facade, it must be a good project

This is what we can feel realistically from this incision.

Finally, I will show you a picture I took when I left.

On the right is the Greentown Huangpu Bay with a glass facade, and on the left is the China Resources Bund Jiuli, which is dry-hung with all stones.

As for the back, look at this iconic faç ade and you will know that it is the old-school mansion Shimao Riverside Garden.

A good facade can really be a highlight of a city’s interface.

Original title: "What is the grade of your community? Just look at the facade."

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