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OffCite Goes to China: Colonials

All photographs by Christof Spieler In this series, Christof Spieler gives regular reports on his trip to China for a special issue of Cite. Read more about RDA’s China initiative here, which includes a knockout lecture series in the Fall. Shanghai is unique among mainland Chinese cities: at its core is a large 1920s European [...]

08.01.11 Place

OffCite Goes to China: High-Speed Hub

In this series, Christof Spieler gives a daily report on his trip to China for a special issue of Cite. Read more about RDA’s China initiative here, which includes a knockout lecture series in the Fall. Beijing South is an immaculate and well-organized high speed rail station as you’ll ever see. This is the Beijing [...]

07.18.11 Infrastructure

OffCite Goes to China: Backstreet

In this series, Christof Spieler gives a daily report on his trip to China for a special issue of Cite. Read more about RDA’s China initiative here, which includes a knockout lecture series in the Fall. Right next to the office towers of the CBD is another world of back alleys, lined with older, smaller [...]

07.14.11 Place

OffCite Goes to China: Megablock

In this series, Christof Spieler gives a daily report on his trip to China for a special issue of Cite. Read more about RDA’s China initiative here, which includes a knockout lecture series in the Fall. At times, Chinese urban planning circa 2000 seems like American urban planning circa 1970. This is Jianwai SOHO, completed [...]

07.11.11 Architecture
Infrastructure

OffCite Goes to China: Traffic

In this series, Christof Spieler gives a daily report on his trip to China for a special issue of Cite. Read more about RDA’s China initiative here, which includes a knockout lecture series in the Fall. The first impression of central Beijing, emerging from the subway station at Chongwenmen, is one of massive scale. Here, [...]

07.05.11 Architecture

OffCite Goes to China

Shenzhen Central Business District, photo from Wikipedia Mind-blowing statistics about China’s urban growth abound. Here’s one. Shenzhen grew from a small town of about 300,000 to over 14 million in just 30 years, making its sister city, Houston, look like a stone on the side of the highway. How can we make sense of numbers [...]

07.02.11 Architecture