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Bad Boy Architects & China's New Face

They are an unmistakable part of the urban cityscapes. But is China a playground for international architects or an abused testing ground for bad design? Liu Yujie examines the landscape and finds out if these new buildings are towering l [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

New skyscrapers pop up across China

BEIJING | The 121-story Shanghai Tower is more than China’s next record-setting building: It’s an economic lifeline for the elite club of skyscraper builders. Financial gloom has derailed plans for new towers in Chicago, Mosc [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

China boom lets O.C. architects hire 5

Usually we hear of local jobs lost to growing Asian economies. And hiring in real estate? A rarity! Well, a Laguna Beach urban design firm has hired five workers — and has plans to add a similar amount the rest of this year — [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Art And Architecture For Creative China Community

Songzhuang is like the Santa Fe of China. Since founding in the early 1990s after Yue Minjun and Fang Lijun moved there, the edgy community has grown with the booming Chinese art market, an explosion of activism and commentary that has flou [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

China's Top 10 cultural events in 2008

The second phase of the construction project of the National Library of China (NLC), a new library, was opened to the public on September 9. Covering an area of 80,538 square meters, the new library can sit 2,900 readers and accept 8,000 v [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

The Great Wall of China (220 B.C and 1368 - 1644 A.D.) China

The Great Wall of China was built to link existing fortifications into a united defense system and better keep invading Mongol tribes out of China. It is the largest man-made monument ever to have been built and it is disputed tha [...]

Posted On : Jul, 14 2007 | Comments : 0

Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, China

Things move fast on the mainland, and when the 384 m. (1,260 ft.) Shun Hing Square was finished in 1996, the 69-story skyscraper was the tallest building in China — until the CITIC Plaza in nearby Guangzhou arrived on the scene a [...]

Posted On : Jul, 13 2007 | Comments : 0

Great Wall Of China

Talking about wonders of the world, here is the wall that’s the most prestigious wonder of China. The Great Wall of China is one of the greatest wonders of the world. Just like a enormous dragon, the Great Wall twists up and down acro [...]