Longchang apartments: a former British police station turned into a residential complex.

The area has been built between the 20s and 30s of last century and is part of Shanghai International Settlement. Longchang Apartment is situated in Yangpu District, Shanghai, fifteen-minute-drive from the Bund. However, people’s livelihood in this apartment is vastly different from the luxurious lifestyle of Shanghai.

Each capsule-like apartment in this block is no more than 200 square feet. A bed and a desk fill the room and make it difficult for people to move around freely. Weather-worn chairs and splintered kitchen cupboards are placed along the corridor, which is filled with other miscellaneous objects of daily life, making the walkway hardly passable. Photo taken December 2019.