Shanghai: ‘The Playground of World Architecture’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 02.07.05 | 3:25 PM ET
Perhaps no other city on the planet offers such a dazzling display of futuristic architectural styles than Shanghai. The February issue of Harper’s features a terrific analysis of that architecture. Writes Mark Kingwell: “Shanghai is a fantasyland of architectural grandiosity where any drawing, no matter how insane or adolescent, may come to life almost instantly, without the citizens’ committees, building restrictions, and expensive labor that hamper architectural geniuses everywhere.” Alas, the story is not available online.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Paul 12.02.05 | 12:15 AM ET
Yes, Shanghai had been “rented” to major countries a century ago, which remained a live museum of world architecture. As a few buildings will be unevitably destroyed in the process of “modernalization”, earlier visit would be suggested.
Paul,BD Manager,KanXiQi.com private tour guide service