Author Archives: Adam Mayer
Defining Western Bias
Architecture critic Guy Horton has an excellent essay on ArchDaily about redefining the way we judge and evaluate Chinese urbanView full post »
Guangzhou’s Inferiority Complex
Guangzhou Opera House. Photo by puikincz You gotta give Guangzhou some credit. The capital city of Guangdong Province is tryingView full post »
City Journal’s Guy Sorman: China Basher
Beijing’s 798 Arts District While browsing through the front page of the planning website Planetizen the other day, I came across aView full post »
Too Good To Be True: Architecture Scams in China
Architecture professionals across the world are entranced by the building boom taking place in China. The urbanization of China’sView full post »
Post G-20 Hangover: Trade Wars, Currency Manipulation & More
Downtown Seoul The G-20 meeting in Seoul earlier this month left in its wake a trail of uncertainty regarding the state of the globalView full post »
China Leaping Ahead With High-Speed Rail
Fast Train from Chengdu to Chongqing Via Infrastructruist: As America continues its game of high-speed rail hot potato, China has quietlyView full post »
Tragedy in Shanghai
I’m an unabashed fan of tall buildings, high-rises, skyscrapers- whatever you want to call them. Not only do they lend cities aView full post »
China, Japan, America
Japanese Retail Chain Uniqlo at Chengdu’s Chunxi Lu Shopping Street After spending the previous two weeks in the U.S. visitingView full post »
Thomas Friedman to America: China is Kicking Our Butt
Tianjin. Photo by Sarmu New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman was in Tianjin earlier this month for the 2010 SummerView full post »
Chengdu’s First Subway Line Set to Open
Entry shell to the new Chengdu underground metro October 1st, 2010 will be a momentous day in the Sichuan capital of Chengdu. On this day,View full post »
Architect Ole Scheeren Opens New Office in China
CCTV Building in Beijing. Photo by Fred @ SG German architect Ole Scheeren, a former partner of the Dutch firm OMA and lead designer of theView full post »
China, America, Paul Krugman
Every few months, Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes an opinion piece lambasting China forView full post »