From a distance, the Beijing Greenland Center recently-completed by the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) may look like any of the other rectangular skyscrapers that dot China's ...
Designed to resemble a ceremonial wine vessel and soaring hundreds of feet above its neighbors, Citic Tower is impossible to miss from downtown Beijing. The 1,731-foot (528-meter) skyscraper – now the ...
BEIJING, China — The Beijing Olympics have an unexpected star: A set of giant towers that look quite a bit like nuclear reactors. The question "is that a nuclear power plant in Beijing?" trended on ...
BEIJING (AP) — They are an imposing fixture at Beijing's Olympic Park, towering over the landscape and glowing at night in all the saturated colors of the spectrum. At some moments they burn bright ...
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, stands for photos with volunteers near the newly named Beijing Olympic Tower on Sunday.[Photo by Zou Hong/China Daily] Beijing has made ...