My once housemate and very good friend, Judith, is in Beijing for the Olympics at the moment.
About the CCTV building (photo by Judith, above) she says:

It's...like nothing I've ever seen in the real world...ever. Though I guess the same could also be said about the Water Cube, the Bird's Nest and the National Theatre. They are all structures that defy what you would typically term, a building. Each of them is making a striking statement of the future of China - as being innovative, assertive and most of all, at the cutting edge of all things.

As a happy diversion, read about Judith's exploits as a tourist in the busiest city in the world right now. Check out Chinese Whispers.

Labels: architecture, Beijing, blue, China, green, Judith, Olympics

Cypherone has shared the most amazing images of an abandoned holiday resort in Sanjhih on the north coast of Taiwan. She says:

"I don't know why it was abandoned.
"Some people do believe that it was abandoned because haunted. In some version of story, someone died in an accident, then it became a haunted building.
But there is an another version of the the story.
"Some people believe it is because the government disallow building a bathing beaches in this area. It became a holiday resort on the coast that can't play on the beach, and soon it was abandoned.
"I don't know which story is true.

I like the ghost version of the story and if you look carefully at Cypherone's flickr set, you can see them in the reflections.

Labels: architecture, flickr, ghost, photography, red, retro, taiwan