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Tall buildings all fall down
Is there something off-kilter about the photo above from a video sent to me yesterday by architectural theorist Nikos Salingaros? Yes, there is. At first I thought it was a video of Pruitt-Igoe, the St. Louis public housing project, all … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Video
Tagged Carbon Footprint, China, Christopher Jencks, Demolition, Minoru Yamasaki, Paris, President Xi, Skyscrapers, Yunnan
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China bans novel archivirus
The People’s Republic of China, taking time off from other matters, has issued a decree banning copies of foreign design in its architecture. The decree, as described in the BBC’s “China ‘copycat’ buildings: Government clamps down on foreign imitations,” also … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged BBC, CCTV, China, Copycat Villages, Cultural Heritage, Modern Architecture
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Is Wuhan China’s Chicago?
Wuhan, the Chinese city where the Wuhan virus originated, is sometimes called “The Chicago of China” for its size (pop. 11.8 million), its central location, its setting on the Yangtze River and its historic buildings and its modern architecture. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged CCTV, CGTN, Chicago, China, Corbusier, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Paris, Plan Voisin, Rem Koolhaas, Wuhan
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Bad trad and good trad
Two articles fished from today’s indispensable ArchNewsNow.com, the thrice-weekly free compendium of anglospherical articles on architecture, edited by Kristen Richards, show the use and misuse of classical traditions on opposite sides of the world. Guess which is which, above and … Continue reading
Changing cities in China
Over a half century or so, China has changed from a largely rural to a largely urban country. The communists had brutal power and used it brutally, a sort of cultural revolution without the violence. China went from cities of … Continue reading
Kafka on China’s Great Wall
Even though I did a post not long ago on the Great Wall of China – linking to magnificent photographs on the website Kuriositas – I lack the knowledge to assess the comments by Franz Kafka on this subject. Kafka … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books and Culture
Tagged China, Great Wall of China, John Updike, Kafka, Kuriositas
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The Great Wall of China
Who knew that it ended at the sea? It does, at the Yellow Sea, just athwart what we now call the Korean Peninsula. It is over 13,000 miles long, running from east to west. I do not know how successful … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged China, Great Wall of China, Kuriositas, Ming Dynasty, Tourism
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Tip me over! Faster! Faster!
A proposed new megatower is planned in China’s Pearl River delta. The city is not named in either the Curbed or the Building Design & Construction articles, perhaps because the city will not exist until the building is finished. It … Continue reading
Oh, to be in, um, China!
It seems the People’s Republic of China has finally followed through on its maximum leader’s threat a year and a half ago to bar goofiness from its architecture. I penned a post, “Xi a Chinese visionary?” expressing my pleasure, or … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Humor, Other countries, Urbanism and planning
Tagged China, Chinese People's Daily, Cultural Revolution, Dan Morales, James Shen, Mao, Penis, Phallic Buildings, President Xi, Rem Koolhaas
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A day at the dragon races!
For three years running we had just missed the dragon-boat races at the annual Pawtucket Arts Festival. This year we made it, and boy did we have fun! We saw contestants slam their cheeks pink in a watermelon-face-splat contest. We … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Rhode Island, Urbanism and planning, Video
Tagged Arts Festival, Blackstone River Valley, Blackstone River Valley Tourism Council, China, Dance, Dragon Boats, Industrial Revolution, Mayor Donald Grebian, Pawtucket, Robert Billington, Taiwan, Urban Planning, Watermelon
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