The city's most recent additions remain controversial. To some, they are tributes to rising national power, glittering wealth and soaring... Beijing's architecture too often feels like a dissonant, ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A 25-year-old artist in Beijing who calls himself ROBBBB has found a unique canvas for his work, one he hopes helps capture the fast-paced changes in China's capital: the walls of ...

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According to the Beijing Administrative Commission of the Central Business District area, the foundation for Beijing‘s tallest building will be poured starting Sept. 15th. Located at the north of the ...

China’s skylines could look a lot more uniform in the years to come, if a statement by a Beijing official is to believed. The backlash against “weird buildings” escalated earlier this week when the ...

(CBS News) BEIJING - Why battle Beijing traffic to get to the mountains if you could just take the elevator? There's no obvious explanation why a wealthy, well-connected Chinese man spent six years ...

Beijing’s Water Cube has been drained. The glowing box-shaped building designed for the swimming competitions in the 2008 Summer Olympics was one of the blockbuster pieces of architecture unveiled ...

It rises next to the Stalinist stolidity of the Great Hall of the People like a huge, glass egg. Subversive in form, French architect Paul Andreu's audacious creation, which opened last winter, is ...

In recent years Halloween has become a big deal in Beijing, with locals and foreigners hitting up dozens of themed parties around the city in their wackiest costumes. Some, however, seek out something ...

Beijing's architecture too often feels like a dissonant, incoherent hodgepodge of architectural styles — traditional Chinese, Stalinist Soviet and post-modern Western. If it suggests a lack of ...