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Smog, Suburbs and Stereotypes: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Choking pollution sweeps through China, new development could eradicate Mexico’s emerging wine industry, and Yahoo can tell you everything that’s wrong with where you live (congratulations, Memphis, you’re apparently a hellhole). All this and more is What’s Ruining Our Cities. Smog is ruining Shanghai I know, a smog alert in China is nothing new. However,…

Tech News Alissa Walker Dec 6

This Stilted Shanghai Office Building is a Bridge Amongst The Trees

China’s grim (and growing) air pollution problems cast some pretty dark shadows on the country’s urban hubs, which often look like they’ve been photographed using a “muddy water” filter. That makes these crisp and sunny pics of the Huaxin Business Center in Shanghai’s Xuhui District all the more surprising. The stilted, four-building complex, designed by…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 20

Would You Work In This Viewless Bubble Building?

The curvaceous forms of blobitecture may look like they’re malleable, but the swoops that define the modern style of lady Zaha, Future Systems, and ol’ Frank Gehry aren’t flexible at all. That’s not the case with the concept for the “Bubble Building” in Shanghai, an ambitious re-imagining of an existing structure that covers the windows…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Oct 15

An Urban Farm In the Most Unlikely Location: A Shanghai Mall

We’re smack dab in the middle of a golden age when anything you could possibly want can be ordered online and delivered straight to your door. Even if you dare venture beyond the sofa to shop, your first stop probably isn’t that stifling bastions of oppressive consumerism (and zombie flick backdrop)—the mall! In Shanghai, however,…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Sep 18

These photos of Shanghai’s cityscape were taken just 26 years apart

If there was any doubt about China’s explosive growth over the past two decades, this unbelievable GIF will most certainly put those suspicions to rest. The first picture, which was taken in 1987, shows Pudong, the area east of the Huangpu river. The second image, taken just last week, reveals the futuristic mega-city that is…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 9

Welcome to the deserted German city outside of Shanghai

This may look like your average German suburb on a quiet day, but it’s actually a planned community 30 kilometers outside of Shanghai. This is Anting German Town, a one-square-kilometer residential development founded in 2001 and built specifically to resemble a little slice of Deutschland. There’s only one problem for this quirky Teutonic oasis —nobody…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 16

A Portrait Of Hyper-Urbanization: Shanghai 1990 vs. Shanghai 2010

Compare these skyline views of Shanghai in 1990 vs. last year in 2010. It’s amazing how quickly urban structures can evolve. (via Nils Gilman)

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 20

This 1930s Shanghai Townhouse Has a Secret

This exterior of this 1930s era townhouse in Shanghai isn’t anything you’d think twice about. The inside, which has sliding wall partitions, a double height living room, and a bamboo courtyard, is decidedly less historic. [MocoLoco] Music: Kevin MacLeod

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 1

A New Train Record Has Been Smashed in Shanghai’s Speedy Bullet Train

Traveling at 415km/h, Shanghai’s latest bullet train has smashed the previous record held by the country last year, by 21km/h. It services the Shanghai to Hangzhou route, which are about 202km apart. https://gizmodo.com/the-fastest-train-in-the-world-5434582 It may be super speedy, but according to locals it’s going to be super pricey too, with the fares costing double what…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 30

How To Survive the Shanghai Expo

My aunt in Vancouver shared a wise Chinese adage recently: “If you don’t go to the Shanghai Expo, you will regret it. If you go to the Shanghai Expo, you will regret it even more.” I laughed. There is a lot of truth to the statement. For the price of an admission ticket to the…

Tech News Stephen Hsia Aug 24

Expat Ad Agency Crams English Cottage Inside Its Office

Take a quick look around the offices of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and you might think you missed your plane to Shanghai. Rooms ripped straight from a meticulous English household offer a respite for the homesick, and commentary on Shanghai’s boom. BBH hopes the cottage cross-section will serve as a “catalyst for social commentary,” though at…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 24

Shanghai Apple Store Opens for Business This Weekend

Chinese Apple fan club members have a new meeting place to talk about Apple in, with the Shanghai Apple Store opening this weekend. Fanatics descend from street level through a 40-foot cylinder, then serenely glide in via glass staircase. https://gizmodo.com/apple-friend-bar-is-a-genius-idea-5581506 Not so much a Shanghai Dream Cube, more of a standard, US-style collection of glass…

Tech News Gary Cutlack Jul 8

Shanghai Skyline: Before and After

Back in 1990—top—Shanghai looked like a lovely green city. Only twenty years later—bottom—you can film the second part of Blade Runner in it. Shanghai has always been an important place. Located on the Yangtze river’s mouth, this Chinese city was already a world commerce hub back in the 30s. But it wasn’t until Deng Xiaoping’s…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 8

Shanghai’s Dream Cube Is Even More Awesome Than Anticipated

Often, overzealous renders get our hopes up for architectural projects that never quite stun the same way in person. But Basil Childers’ first photos of Shanghai’s Dream Pavilion are even more impressive than the initial renders promised. https://gizmodo.com/stunning-shanghai-corporate-pavilion-made-from-used-cd-5351058 The facade is 100% LED array, but the exact pattern is constantly in flux, dictated by those…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 29

The Great Subways Of The World Are Freaking Gorgeous

There’s something blissfully futuristic about subways. Maybe it’s that these people-movers evoke space stations or arcologies. Or perhaps being shoved ass-to-shoulder together with strangers during rush hour unleashes some long-dormant pack instinct. Regardless, these metros are shiny. Designboom has a great rundown of space age subway photography, but I’m a little peeved no one gave…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 3

Seed Cathedral Could Do Some Serious Damage To Skydivers at the Shanghai World Expo 2010

Looking like an English hedgehog with over 60,000 7.5m-long transparent acrylic rods shooting out of the building, the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo is costing the equivalent of $38.6m to construct. [MSN]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 22

The Shanghai World Expo 2010 Will be an Amazing Architectural Freak Show

How do you top Singapore’s pixelated skyscraper, Macau’s giant bunny, that twirly Danish Pavilion, and even a corporate building made from used CD cases? If you’re Romania, you build a $3.5 million giant green apple designed to encourage healthy lifestyles… https://gizmodo.com/the-pixel-cloud-skyscraper-is-a-jrpg-dream-fortress-5192526 Dubbed the GreenOpolis, the pavilion was designed by SC M&C Strategy Development, and will…

Tech News Danny Allen Dec 1

Ride The Subway Towards The Light

Next stop heaven? Actually, it’s the Bund in Shanghai. On the short trip between Pudong and the Bund, commuters are treated to one hell of a underground light show. The image is actually part of National Geographic‘s International Photography Contest 2009—one of 25 examples collected by Boston.com. Check out the entries if you want a…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 23

Gigantic LED Funnels Will Light Up 2010 Expo, Suck Rain, Spacetime Continuum

See that enormous blue funnel in the middle of those buildings? It’s just one of the six canopies that will light up the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. As the close-ups show, the scale of these things defies belief: They are not just light sources, however. These LED towers also collect rainwater and funnel sunlight…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 11

14-yo Boy Drinks Gasoline to be like Optimus Prime

I remember the boys jumping off roofs and windows when Superman came out back in 1978 (girls, being a lot smarter than boys, don’t do these stupid things). Looks like Transformers has had a similar effect in one boy: Since my son started to drink gas, his IQ has dropped sharply and now he can’t…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 21

Smog, Suburbs and Stereotypes: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

This Stilted Shanghai Office Building is a Bridge Amongst The Trees

Would You Work In This Viewless Bubble Building?

An Urban Farm In the Most Unlikely Location: A Shanghai Mall

These photos of Shanghai’s cityscape were taken just 26 years apart

Welcome to the deserted German city outside of Shanghai

A Portrait Of Hyper-Urbanization: Shanghai 1990 vs. Shanghai 2010

This 1930s Shanghai Townhouse Has a Secret

A New Train Record Has Been Smashed in Shanghai’s Speedy Bullet Train

How To Survive the Shanghai Expo

Expat Ad Agency Crams English Cottage Inside Its Office

Shanghai Apple Store Opens for Business This Weekend

Shanghai Skyline: Before and After

Shanghai’s Dream Cube Is Even More Awesome Than Anticipated

The Great Subways Of The World Are Freaking Gorgeous

Seed Cathedral Could Do Some Serious Damage To Skydivers at the Shanghai World Expo 2010

The Shanghai World Expo 2010 Will be an Amazing Architectural Freak Show

Ride The Subway Towards The Light

Gigantic LED Funnels Will Light Up 2010 Expo, Suck Rain, Spacetime Continuum

14-yo Boy Drinks Gasoline to be like Optimus Prime

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