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February 8, 2010 – 3:27 pm

olympic ballardia

[Perhaps determined to echo BLDGBLOG's call for a "J.G. Ballard of contemporary China" (or drive home Kongjian Wu's repeated declarations about the material wastefulness of much of the contemporary building program in China), the New York Times reports from the "empty shells" of Beijing's Olympic venues and features a slideshow of photographs by Susetta Bozzi; [...]

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January 25, 2010 – 1:06 pm

the best architecture of the decade

[The Large Hadron Collider]
The end of a decade inspires a lot of list compiling; in that spirit, mammoth offers an alternative list of the best architecture of the decade, concocted without any claim to authority and surely missing some fascinating architecture.   But we hope that at least it’s not boring, as this was an exciting [...]

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October 8, 2009 – 9:28 am

zibo

[apartment blocks in Zibo, via google maps]
A photo essay on the Chinese city of Zibo, in four parts (Zibo I, Zibo II, Zibo III, Zibo IV — best viewed in IE/Safari/Chrome, as some script there tends to upset Firefox), from Moving Cities, who are doing some fascinating research on urbanism in China.  Zibo is one [...]

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April 30, 2009 – 1:11 pm

the greenwashed city

At Yale Environment 360, Christina Larson explores the fate of China’s Dongtan project and the ramifications/lessons of its apparent failure for the ‘eco-city’.  The most important points she makes are probably (a) that such projects tend to “leave the population they were supposed to serve behind” while garnering “fame and money for the foreign firms [...]

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