Absurdity, Allegory and China

From today’s NYT Nikolai Ouroussoff’s In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China highlights the gap between the ideals of the architects who are transforming the face of Beijing and their client, the Chinese government. Regarding some of the higher profile projects, namely the Bird’s Nest and the CCTV Headquarters Building:
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Here are a few more photos from the East Third Ring Rd on Saturday afternoon. The light was right.

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I went by the CCTV HQ Building late Saturday afternoon just to make sure that it’s on-schedule. Though there’s still a lot of steel showing, I expect it will be impressively shiny and fully-sheathed, in full-Olympic dazzle, by August 8. I also expect that if there are any problems with the construction schedule, this site [...]

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Before moving to China I heated our rural Virginia home with wood and had a variety of tools to assist with the duties of making fallen trees into stove-sized fuel. Of all the tools I owned, the Monster Maul was one that, short of my neighbor’s hydraulic splitter borrowed for the nastiest of hickory, put [...]

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