urbane July 2008
The July issue of urbane takes an upclose look at “Olympitecture” - the fascinating collection of structures that will be showcased to the world come August. Alex Pasternack reports from inside the Birds’ Nest, while Daniel Allen shoes us around the Olympic Village, Basketball Arena, Water Cube and more.
Jie Yang interviews ceramics specialist Xie Dong, while Bert De Munyck takes a look around the new Xiangshan campus of the China Academy of Arts and Caitlin Manicolm gives us a look at Xiao Mao and Paul Gelinas’s Guozijian boutique Lost & Found. Beijing by Foot author Eric Abrahamsen recounts a brief history of Beijing’s hutongs and Gary Bowerman describes the sights of the ancient city of Xi’an.
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