ChinaEncounters

Shanghai vs Beijing architectural bakeoff

20 of the most creative architectiural pieces from Beijing and Shanghai are pitted against each other. 

oobject » Shanghai vs Beijing architectural bakeoff.

This is China today!

Beijing's new skyline: China set to show off to the world

BEIJING -- In the rush to modernize, Beijing's planners have usually opted for the safe but unimaginative skyscrapers of glass and steel. But when the world tunes in for the Summer Olympics next August it will find China has dreamed up some of the most otherworldly architecture anywhere on the planet.

"Some of it is just so exaggerated and gone beyond normality," said Bing Thom, the Vancouver architect who is one of Canada's leaders in the field. "But what's happening in China is so beyond normality anyway, it's a quantum scale of change that we're just not used to seeing

Link: Beijing's new skyline: China set to show off to the world.

Chinese Unveil Mammoth Arts Center

Chinese Unveil Mammoth Arts Center

BEIJING — Compared variously to a floating pearl and a duck egg, the titanium-and-glass half-dome of the National Center for the Performing Arts formally opened its underwater entryway to Chinese officials and dignitaries here over the weekend.

The $400 million complex, a concert hall, opera house and theater under one space age span, is designed to be the center of Chinese culture, just as Tiananmen Square next door was designated this country’s political center. .....

Blog of an architect in Beijing

This blog, hosted by an arcitect in Beijing, has some great pictures, from Beijing and further afield.

Link: Il milione di RTP. 

The Beijing Page

Link: The Beijing Page.

Walks in Beijing

A walking tour of Beijing's lake district Shichahai

A Walking Tour of Beijing - The Eastern Route

A Walking Tour of Beijing - The Southern Route

A Walking Tour of Beijing - The Western Line

Beijing This Month

Link: Beijing This Month- Beijing This Month.

Beijing International Sculpture Park

Two sets of pictures from a great exhibition.

Link: Beijing International Sculpture Park.

Link: Beijing International Sculpture Park.

Location: Yuquanlu, Haidian District.

To get there, take Line One subway to Yuquanlu Station. The park is 10 metres southwest of the subway.

Electronic Map of Beijing

An interactive electronic map of Beijing, curtesy of the Beijing Olympics Committee.

An article in the China Daily is here

Its a bit slow to load, especially at the moment as China struggles to restore internet connection after earthquake damage in the Taiwan Straits some weeks ago.

Whose Forbidden City?

This needs some comment from me soon.

Online Campaign to Rid Forbidden City of Starbucks

Whose Forbidden City?

Storm in a Coffee Cup Brewing in the the Forbidden City