The New York Times has a photo gallery and write up of the rapid urbanization and sometimes frightening construction happening in China's biggest cities - specifically around Shanghai and Hong Kong. While the writing leans towards flowery ("These photographs are ecological in the classical sense of the word—”eco” meaning “home” in Greek, and “log” meaning “word”—since they create a dialogue about home, about the way infrastructure first reflects our aspirations and assumptions, and then shapes them," says Todd Doddy), the pictures themselves are stark and beautiful, despite being only about half-constructed, entirely generic buildings. more ›

What happens if you build two high-rise apartment buildings and realize in hindsight that not only is the feng shui off, you actually care that the feng shui is off? If you're this building developer in Putuo, you insert a giant frickin' 15-story-high rock. more ›

I don't care what half the people said on that recent post about how ugly Shanghai's new cruise ship terminal was - it is an architectural horror and the amount of commenters who signed up specifically to say it was great makes me wonder how many PR flackies SPARCH has on hand. But this post isn't about that - this post is about some real architecture worth oohing and aahing at: the plans for the Shanghai Cultural Plaza. more ›