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Format: Book
Pages: 237
Publisher: DAAB
Date Published: Oct 2008
Stock Code: 65328
Binding: Hardback
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Apart from being one of Asias largest metropolises, Beijing is an ultimate visual challenge. The country's growing economy and construction boom has attracted the attention of the world's finest architects eager to create masterworks in this city. The new is rapidly replacing the old in the country's political, economic and cultural center.
When Beijing won the bid in 2001 to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the city started a somewhat controversial transformation. Olympic-driven developments - from sports and cultural infrastructure to business buildings and commercial facilities - have transformed a city once characterised by conservative Communist architecture. Now the emerging Chinese middle-class can live, work and play in Western-style residential buildings, offices and malls, such as SOHO Shangdu, and can be seen in some of the city's trendiest venues, like Philippe Starck's LAN restaurant and Zhong Song's Song Music Bar + Kitchen.
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