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Beijingâs new dome not all itâs cracked up to be
The New York Times Critics pound Beijingâs new dome BEIJING Some compare it to a globe severed at the equator. To others it resembles a phosphorescent egg floating in a crystal sea. One prominent Beijing architect said that when the desert dust kicks up around Beijing, lathering the expansive glass dome in a pall of gray grime, it resembles nothing so much as dried dung. But the most apt analogy for Chinaâs $300 million National Theater, now approaching completion in the political heart of Beijing near Tiananmen Square, may be a hot potato. The French architect, Paul Andreu, has come under investigation in France, and intensive scrutiny in China, after a new terminal he designed at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris collapsed, killing four people, two of them Chinese. more ... Posted by: Zenster 2004-06-15 |
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