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Photo: Weng Fen. Photo: Weng Fen. Photo: Weng Fen. Photo: Weng Fen.

Schoolgirls Look Out onto China’s Alienating Urban Landscapes

In his beguiling photo series “Sitting on the Wall: Haikou V,” Chinese artist Weng Fen captures young women and new cities on the precipice of change. The backs of the young women face us, giving no hint of a personal identity, save for their slightly varied school uniforms. Meanwhile, the booming new buildings dominate the background, their postmodern facades signifying an increase of investment and oncoming changes throughout Chinese cities. Read more!

Photo: Matthieu Belin. LIFE Magazine. Photo: Matthieu Belin. LIFE Magazine.

Guess The Building—China Edition!

For this week’s Guess the Building post, Architizer is headed to China! While we constantly find ourselves covering major projects by Western architects that have flocked to the Far East to build (Steven Holl, Coop Himmelb(l)au, PES-Architects to name a few), this set of fashion photos features the amazing work of a local architect with an international reputation! Think you’ve seen that gorgeous striated masonry before? Can you name the building? Tell us in the comments section below.

Photo: Romain Jacquet-Lagreze, 'Vertical Horizon' series Photo: Romain Jacquet-Lagreze, 'Vertical Horizon' series Photo: Romain Jacquet-Lagreze, 'Vertical Horizon' series Photo: Romain Jacquet-Lagreze, 'Vertical Horizon' series Photo: Romain Jacquet-Lagreze, 'Vertical Horizon' series

Check out these Incredible Worm’s Eye Views of Hong Kong!

AmphibianArc Designs Alien-Inspired Skyscrapers in China!

China “Exports” Ghost Cities to Angola

Construction on Zaha Hadid’s Galaxy SOHO in Central Beijing Progresses

Ground has broken on a groundscraper-hotel in an abandoned quarry Shanghai that will feature a “waterfall” constructed of glass and two underwater levels.

From experimentsinmotion:

Motion Study shot by Mengyi Fan:

Shot in China highspeed rail to Weifang.
inspired by daihei shibata’s shinkansen 

The eerily empty New South China Mall in Dongguan, China.

Liu Bolin, Hiding in New York

The case for building 9 Freedom Towers in Tiananmen Square.

The Tea House by Archi-Union, Shanghai

Wang Shu, recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Prize

4 years after the earthquake, Sichuan school children receive a miniature city to call their own.

My Little Beijing, seeing China’s capital through tilt-shift photography.

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