BEIJING BUILDINGS:PART 1

Beijing is a rather strange place architecturally, it is a strange mix of ultra modern glass and steel, strange buildings that look like pictures on the covers of '30's science fiction magazines, gruesome worker's flats and occasionally rather beautiful old buildings. These last are sadly disappearing very rapidly, unless they happen to be something that tourists might like to see, such as old temples and palaces.

There are also a number of completely insane buildings, which I will show you as I get the chance to photograph them, such as the CCTV towers built by a Dutch architect who appears to have been smoking too much Ned Weed when he made the designs. In any event, given the speed at which some of these buildings have gone up, it leaves me rather breathless as I wander around Beijing these days. As i think I mentioned in an earlier post, currently - owing to the Olympics - all building work has been put on hold, so Beijing is almost peaceful... no noise of scaffolding craashing around, no compressors roaring or screaming building workers... bliss!

Anyhow, here are some images of some of the buildings around here.... Sorry about the quality, I used a mobile to take them as I was going home in a taxi this evening.