In my books, people sit in front of their shikumen [stone gate] houses and talk.

在我的书里，人们坐在他们的石库门房子前聊天。

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Donald Bunnell and his wife, Beth, bought a shikumen with heavy stone walls and courtyards and commissioned Wallis to convert an interior courtyard into a minimal reflecting pool with a lit fountain.

唐纳德•邦耐尔（Donald Bunnel）和妻子贝丝（Beth）买下了一幢石库门，房子墙壁很厚，是石头的，还带庭院； 他们委托潘朝阳把其中一个庭院改造成倒影相映的小水池，装上灯光喷泉。

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Shikumen (literally"stone gate") is an architectural style that first appeared in late nineteenth century. Shikumen-style buildings are characteristic residential buildings of Shanghai.

19世纪后期上海出现的石库门，是最具上海特色的居民住宅。

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To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.

BBC: The sharpest rooms in Shanghai