The NYT has a pretty nice overview of the new architecture in Beijing with an interactive map featuring the major points of interest including the CCTV Headquarters, the National Theater, the National Stadium, the National Aquatics Center, and the Airport Terminal. By highlighting each place on the map you can listen to a full description […]

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This is the design for the new City Hall Complex in Seoul. The design is actually supposed to be a modern interpretation a Korean roof eave, but I’m not feeling that at all.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r0fM31BXKk

 
Gettin’ busy up North:
Pyongyang is planning to build as many as 100,000 new houses by 2012, the centennial birth anniversary of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung and the target year to become Kangsong Taeguk (a great, prosperous and powerful country), a pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan said
Kim Hyong-gil, vice director of the municipal general construction bureau, […]

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