No, it’s not the CCTV Headquarters building…which I strangely kind of like, even though it appears to epitomize masturbatory architecture and sky-line wonks nor does it fit at all into the surrounding fabric…I remain strangely drawn to it. I can’t seem to explain my new found attraction towards good ultra-modernist design. I could blame weburbanist.com [...]
11 Feb 2009 Bryan 2 comments
I’ve never seen, except in movies and the time that my building in SimTower caught on fire, a high-rise blaze . The hotel complex to the side of the main, two-legged leaning structure was engulfed in fire from top to bottom. The cause of the fire was not confirmed, but local residents said it had [...]
china, nanjing, personal, urban planning
The Park View Dingshan Hotel （丁山花园大酒店）is another Nanjing real estate anomaly and easily as puzzling as the Greenland Financial Center. An afore mentioned warning…the following is written by someone who hasn’t got a clue what he is talking about and is really just a bunch of mush observations backed up by hardly any evidence thrashed [...]
22 May 2008 Bryan 3 comments
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