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... in Shanghai. This place was about 2 blocks from my hotel, it actually does have a Chinese restaurant specializing in hot pepper dishes .....

LOL! It's finally been proven that the Borg have an enemy that can assimilate them.

The new People's Museum of Technology & Science, Shanghai-Pudong ... I gotta say, the pure SCALE of the building and the surrounding pavilions is pretty impressive.

People's Security Bureau, Shanghai-Pudong

Nice pics.

Very cool buildings. Nice architecture.

I gotta find my photo of the "Hall of The War of Repelling American Aggression and Defending Korea."

"Welcome to our new drive-in restaurant, designed to accomodate even Borg cubes"

Yeah the "Borg" building is seriously cool looking.

So that's why they only come one at a time- it's not the tech, it's the food!

But that Security Bureau looks very cool.

Say what you will about the PRC, but their buildings kick arse.

Especially the security bureau and the institute of science and technology. Nice sight.

Night view from my hotel of what I called the 'Tron Buildings' ...

Bah, as shiny as these buildings are, they don't hold the majesty of the British Library, Natural History Museum or Vauxhall Cross.

See, that's what we're missing out on. A government that wants their buildings to look really fucking cool.

The 88-story Jin Mao Tower

Starbucks: All your base belong to them .....

Don't be to impressed. Note that in the picture of the "Tron" buildings, every other structure has it's lights out. That skyline, shiny thoughn it may be, has nothing on even the most modest of American cities. A huge, exploitable workforce is no replacement for infrastructure and efficiency.

Thirdfain wrote:Don't be to impressed. Note that in the picture of the "Tron" buildings, every other structure has it's lights out. That skyline, shiny thoughn it may be, has nothing on even the most modest of American cities. A huge, exploitable workforce is no replacement for infrastructure and efficiency.

Possibly ... although late on a Friday night, when that pic was taken, maybe they're just efficient enough to turn the lights out in the office buildings.

That is a very tiny piece of one of Shanghai's many 'skylines', and every damned pic I take downtown in Pushi includes construction cranes.

Here's Hua Hue Road, one of the two main downtown Pushi business/financial streets ... our office is the biggest building in the pic on the right ...



Here's the view from our office ... cranes, cranes, everywhere in the city cranes are throwing up new buildings, office & residential, tearing down old neighborhoods ...

Wow very nice. Never realized China had such great architecture.