Thom Mayne's Shanghai Dragon

By Emily Cadman2009-03-11T16:29:00

Thom Mayne has stirred the ethical waters with his practice's latest building, a steel, glass and concrete behemoth for a pharmaceutical company in Shanghai, China.Inhabitat describes it as "something between a sci-fi battleship landing on a highway, and a steampunk dragon frozen in time". “In China, you can do ...

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