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New tower shows Beijing's Olympic spirit By Sun Xiaochen (China Daily) Updated: 2016-06-13 07:19. Comments Print Mail Large Medium Small.
Designed to resemble a ceremonial wine vessel and soaring hundreds of feet above its neighbors, Citic Tower is impossible to miss from downtown Beijing. The 1,731-foot (528-meter) skyscraper ...
BEIJING (AP) — They are an imposing fixture at Beijing’s Olympic Park, towering over the landscape and glowing at night in all the saturated colors of the spectrum. At some moments they burn ...
WSJ's International News Editor Rebecca Blumenstein provides more details and speaks with colleague Adam Najberg about China's fire safety amid a rapidly growing city. Flames and occasional ...
BEIJING — On a night when millions of Chinese revelers set off fireworks for the end of the Lunar New Year, one display Monday night sent a 44-story hotel up in flames, killing a firefighter and ...
Stretching 1,765 feet into the sky, CITIC Tower has become the tallest building in Beijing. The tower draws inspiration from the form of the “zun,” a ritual vessel originating in Bronze Age China. The ...
BEIJING--Five years ago, Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren unveiled their radical design for the new China Central Television Tower here to a disbelieving public. Even their client wasn't sure it ...
Today Beijing gets a little help from the world’s largest outdoor air purifier — a 23-foot-tall, metal hexagon called the Smog Free Tower.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Building a skyscraper should be challenge enough. Ole Scheeren wants to reinvent the concept. The chief architect behind the new headquarters for China's state broadcaster has ...
July 25 (Reuters) - Beijing Cuiwei Tower Co., Ltd. : * Says it plans to invest 7.5 million yuan to set up a Beijing-based international education investment JV with three partners * Says the JV ...