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Beijing in town, 2009

An Lian Plaza building. Thousands of towers are raised in Beijing. Each one is more modern as the previous one « Hutongs » : old traditional quarters, are destroyed to give place to modern buildings The number of circular express ways and offices or apartments buildings is increasing LG Twin Towers. Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, USA The CNCC tower, building of the Chinese public television. Architect Rem Koolhaas, Netherlands This apartment’s building looks more familiar One level shops in front of an apartments’ building He flies a kite Everyday life on a pedestrian square, a kite in the sky Hamburger in Beijing Traffic jams… Pedestrian crowd Be relaxed crossing the city with your scooter Stoic, despite the rain… Or with the right equipment when it rains We do home deliveries We deliver too, but…just wait for a moment This rickshaw is not available This rickshaw is...available ! Two of the three Xihuan towers, designed by the French architectural agency AREP One more tower ! The « bird’s nest », the Olympics’ stadium at sunset. Architects : Ai Weiwei, Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog, Li Xinggang Many Chinese tourists visit the stadium IBM « dragon’s head » building next to the Olympics' stadium, architect Li Zuyuan View over the top part of that same tower also nicknamed « torch building » A view over the Olympics’ Aquatics Center or the “water cube”, at sunset. Architect Chris Bosse, Germany A friendly conversation’s attempt

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