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The Western is suddenly Eastern?

I finally got around to reading Nicolas Ourassouf’s love letter to Beijing’s new architecture in Sunday’s New York Times. Content-wise, it doesn’t offer much that the dozens of other similar essays, on the same buildings... ...full story at Shanghai Scrap

from Shanghai Scrap on Wed, Jul 16 2008

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