Among the most striking transformations has been the leveling of old Shanghai's largest remaining section of shikumen, the characteristic row houses with stone-frame doors in the heart of the city.
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The fenestration at ground floor level along Wharf and Abbott Streets appears to be original except the main entry door at Wharf Street, which has been replaced with an aluminium framed door.
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At the same time, to create an impression of seamless wall surfaces, he exchanged the esthetically intrusive hollow metal frame doors with their clunky doorknobs and hinges for frameless doors with concealed hardware.
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The new wood-framed doors and windows, which seem luxurious in their rough settings, have been kept open over the hot, humid summer, and flies swarm in clouds where there is food or water.
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As he sank an additional $ 3 . 5 million into renovation, Goguen integrated modern features like thermal-pane, double-hung aluminum windows, modernized kitchens with ceramic-tile floors, white 42-inch cabinets with glass-frame doors and white-on-white appliances.
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One hundred years ago this month, with the banker and railroad tycoon J . Pierpont Morgan serving as both its patron and commodore, the New York Yacht Club opened its ornately framed doors for the first time.
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The owners have undertaken some minor works including the removal of metal grill gates at the top of the steps to the colonnade entrance, and replaced these with slat grey, steel framed doors with full glazing panels.
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The original aluminum and glass entrance doors have also been removed, with their pulls and hardware designed to reinforce the motif stated by the wrought iron railing around the building, and replaced with generic aluminum framed doors.
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The YJ featured large mirrors with manually adjustable arms on half-door models, while full-framed doors received smaller adjustable mirrors with fixed arms ( which were mounted further away from the door corner, compared to the larger-style mirrors ).
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The ground floor has predominantly regularly spaced aluminium-framed door and window units accessing the public bar and lounge along the Ann Street elevation, and the main entrance which accesses the first and second floor accommodation fronts onto Brunswick Street.
