Category Archives: Architecture

Tianjin: the heritage of a neglected city

The new issue of China Heritage Quarterly is online. The theme is the heritage of Tianjin, a port city with a fabulous and cosmopolitan history that is only half an hour away from Beijing on the new bullet train but which is neglected by tourists, scholars and business people.

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CCTV and Koolhaas deflect rumors about an obscene building

CCTV interviews Rem Koolhaas about rumors that the new CCTV building looks like genitalia.

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Rem Koolhaas and CCTV architecture porn

Chinese netizens discover that the CCTV building looks like genitalia. Koolhaas knew it all along.

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97 former residences of the famous demolished in Beijing

Yesterday’s The Beijing News ran something on the former residences of famous people in the old parts of Beijing and their state now.

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Building a new Old City in Kashgar

Phoenix Weekly has a cover story on the redevelopment of Kashgar’s old town. Also, the ‘This is Xinjiang’ blog has some photos of the totally soulless designs for new communities.

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Innovative government buildings: “rebellious”?

The May issue of Art & Design showcases and interviews the architects and planners on if their designs are contrary to tradition or “rebellious”.

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Tear down the roof beam, bartender

Chai Jing writes about rural homeowners who are selling off parts of their houses to urban nouveau riche.

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China according to China

MovingCities introduce an online documentary in five parts, made by Diego Grass Puga of 0300TV, which profiles five leading Chinese architects on the topic of “China’s current situation and history.”

The online documentary is filmed by Diego Grass Puga of 0300TV, a site that specializes on “interviews, news, articles, videocast” about architecture. The video segments are listed under the titles “What is exactly happening here?” “Speed,” “Agrilculture,” “Education” and “Architecture: 2008, China.”

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Blueprints for a Beijing that never was

1950s designs for Beijing that were never made into reality.

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Map of new CCTV building

Arup, the engineering firm that has been behind most of Beijing’s new architectural wonders including the new CCTV headquarters, the Bird’s Nest, the Water Cube and China World Tower 3, has launched a new website about their Beijing operations.

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