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Category Archives: 重庆
Cyberpunk II
Of all the Asian cities I’ve travelled to, I was surprised to find that Chongqing, of all places, felt the most cyberpunk. (This skyscraper with the nightmarish animated chick & egg to “celebrate” the Year of the Rooster certainly contributed.) I … Continue reading
Seals
The Chongqing Guotai Grand Theatre building has a cool design using a lattice of beams whose ends look like Chinese seals.
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Wraparound
This huge video screen wrapped around the edge of the building. Some ads used the angled edge as a design element — like a sidebar — whereas other ads like this one just treated it as an entire screen.
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Hawker
This woman was walking around the street, selling scrawny chickens dangling from a stick. Ah, China.
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Museum
Right across People’s Square from the Hall of the People is the Three Gorges Museum. I was pretty Gorged out, so I hurried through the Gorges and Dam exhibits. Yet more unfortunate taxidermy made it look like the animals had seen … Continue reading
Auditorium
Towering over People’s Square is a huge auditorium called the Great Hall of the People. The architecture was inspired by Beijing’s Temple of Heaven.It’s so photogenic, I had trouble finding a bad angle.
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Cacophony
Early morning in People’s Square — between the Great Hall of the People and the Three Gorges Museum — you can see half a dozen different groups of people practicing dance routines or flag routines or Tai Chi or whatever, … Continue reading
Mountain
Chongqing is known at “The Mountain City” and (as my calves can testify) sits atop a hilly peninsula. It reminded me a bit of San Francisco in that respect. Along with Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin it is one of China’s four direct … Continue reading
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