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| Beijing’s new dome not all it’s cracked up to be |
| 2004-06-15 |
The New York Times Critics pound Beijing’s new dome BEIJING Some compare it to a globe severed at the equator. To others it resembles a phosphorescent egg floating in a crystal sea. One prominent Beijing architect said that when the desert dust kicks up around Beijing, lathering the expansive glass dome in a pall of gray grime, it resembles nothing so much as dried dung. But the most apt analogy for China’s $300 million National Theater, now approaching completion in the political heart of Beijing near Tiananmen Square, may be a hot potato. The French architect, Paul Andreu, has come under investigation in France, and intensive scrutiny in China, after a new terminal he designed at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris collapsed, killing four people, two of them Chinese. more ... |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #4 Speaking of cracks, how is that dam holding up these days? |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-06-15 3:19:25 PM |
| #3 A severed head? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-06-15 3:15:33 PM |
| #2 I'll go with the "dried dung," as in "Mao Tse Tung = Mounds of Dung." |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-06-15 2:47:30 PM |
| #1 Some compare it to a globe severed at the equator. To others it resembles a phosphorescent egg floating in a crystal sea. How about "It looks like Mao's pate"?? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-15 12:45:42 PM |