Please humour me while I give vent to my professional architectural passions. We went to see the site of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou. The city has turned the site into a huge open square with many beautiful ultra modern buildings. They apparently used the games to showcase the new China similar to Beijing for the Olympics. It also features a large fountain choreographed to music.They whole thing is now only 1 year old. There is one building still under construction. The square is surrounded by a new commercial development of large office buildings. The largest, the Guangzhou International Finance Centre, is 103 stories and is located across the street from the square (see attached photo). The top 30 stories is a Four Seasons hotel. There is another tower under construction next door which will be 116 stories. The who;e thing is built on the site of an old historic airport. This is just a small part of the development going on all over the city. The scale of new construction going on in Guangzhou is mind boggling.
Greg
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