Beijing, really isn’t anywhere quite like it.
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Hadid’s monstrosity that trashed so much unique & irreplaceable Beijing heritage - remembering the letters to RIBA from brave members of the Chinese heritage community. Of course the ego that was Hadid had nothing to say and bulldozed right on - google.com/amp/s/www.deze
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It may be ugly, and dulled by dust, and vaguely cursed-feeling as you walk into it, but you can't deny that it's... there.
Unadulterated Philistinism in architectural form - i think a RIBA critic described it as ‘no context’ architecture
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