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Nail House: Holdout Building Had Highway Built Around It

China is full of strange stories of so-called 'nail houses' - homes of people who refuse to move to make way for a large development project. Still, this one was particularly unique: its owners ...

Lawless Metropolis: Life in Kowloon Walled City, Then & Now

Twenty years ago, a dank, lawless, congested and compacted city located just outside Hong Kong was evacuated and destroyed, putting an end to the nearly century-old settlement first created as a ...

The Silent Valley: Landscapes Overtaken by Urbanization

The rapid industrialization of China and its effects on the nation's beautiful natural scenery are depicted taking over traditional landscape scenes in a stunningly detailed series of digital ...

Subterranean Quarry Hotel to Extend 328 Feet Underground

Construction has begun on an incredible 19-story, 5-star hotel that will be located deep within a 100-meter (328-foot) abandoned quarry near the base of Tianmashan Mountain in the Songjiang ...

Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch

Altering most of today's cities to eliminate cars altogether would be a daunting, if not impossible, proposition - which is why China is starting from scratch. Great City will be built around a ...

5M SF of Sleek: World’s Largest Subterranean Rail Station

The largest underground high-speed rail station in the world will connect Hong Kong to Beijing, and measure an incredible 4,628,481 square feet. Designed by Andrew Bromberg of architecture firm ...

Pirated Architecture: Chinese Copies of Famous Buildings

Consider what Le Corbusier would think if he were alive to see his famous church in France duplicated as a Chinese barbecue restaurant. Or imagine what an Austrian village  must feel about its ...

Shanghai Bomb Shelter Now Bustling Underground Night Club

With a population of nearly 13.5 million packed into just 2,448 square miles and a large network of disused bomb shelters, it's no surprise that some Shanghai businesses are going underground. ...

Urban Suburbs: 4 McMansions Atop Chinese Shopping Mall

It sounds like a hoax at best, an architectural student thesis gone wrong at worst ... yet it is entirely real: a series of conventional-looking, a-frame abodes atop a gigantic mega-block ...

Material Worlds: All Their Possessions in Just One Picture

After a recent look at urban Europeans posing with all they own, this potent look at rural Asian families and their worldly possessions shows stark contrasts but surprising similarities as ...

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