I already wrote a first report two months ago about those strange buildings being currently on interrupted construction: I visited the unfinished Museum of Beaux-Arts and the unfinished Grand Theater. Here is my report about the unfinished-abandoned Sport center designed by the Australian firm Populous (the firm which designed the sport facilities in Nanjing for […]
Datong est une ville située dans le nord de la province chinoise du Shanxi. Elle est célèbre pour son histoire et son patrimoine ancien, mais aussi tristement labellisée « capitale du charbon », l’économie minière ayant durant longtemps caractérisé son développement. Un jour, la ville a fait l’objet d’un relooking radical. L’ancien maire de la ville Geng […]
This report on the visit I did in November 2015 will display the amazing SF architecture of several unfinished-abandoned buildings found in Datong… Strange buildings, aren’t they? Before presenting more closely their amazing architecture, I will explain where they come from… The five major equipments project (五大场馆): a semi-failure Datong, a city in Northern Shanxi […]
