CCTV BuildingA very creative 'Z' criss-cross building made its appearance in Beijing Central Business District in 2009.
BeijingThe capital of the most populous country in the world
The Ritz-Carlton Beijing, Financial StreetMost Ritz-Carltons look, from the lobby if not from the street, like something out of Revolutionary France; in 21st-century Beijing that would just be (...)
The Regent BeijingBeijing is placing big bets on the future, with a wealth of high-profile building projects — Herzog & de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium and the Rem (...)
The Opposite HouseThough it’s called The Opposite House it’s not as high-concept as it may sound. Not a hotel where down is up, or the flat-screen TVs watch you, but a (...)
The Peninsula BeijingThe Palace Hotel, now the Peninsula Palace Beijing, is exactly what one expects from a Peninsula hotel in the Far East. This should not be taken to mean (...)
The EmperorWith the amount of construction that’s going on in Beijing at the moment we’d probably do well to get used to this sort of thing. For years, nothing (...)
China World Hotel, BeijingThough you’d never guess it from the vaguely institutional name, the China World Hotel is actually a Shangri-La property — with all the luxury (...)
Shangri-La Hotel, BeijingThe palatial megahotels of the Far East are renowned for their state-of-the-art facilities and for their almost absurdly high standard of service — the (...)
Red Capital RanchJust as the Red Capital Residence fondly recalls a bygone era of revolutionary Communist kitsch, the Red Capital Ranch, in the countryside outside of (...)
Hotel GIf you accept the premise that this is China’s century (and we’re all just living in it) then logically one inescapable conclusion follows: they’re (...)
Commune By The Great Wall KempinskiThe Commune by the Great Wall Kempinski is most often described as an architectural museum, a design exhibition, an exercise in cutting-edge modernism — (...)
Aman At Summer Palace, BeijingTo say the Aman at Summer Palace, Beijing is an example of the Amanresorts group gone urban would be perhaps a bit misleading. This one is technically in (...)
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