Work and time off in Beijing
I am currently in Beijing working on the installation of the first Frank Gehry exhibition in China. After Beijing the exhibition will go to Hong Kong where Gehry’s Stubbs Road Residential Tower, for Swire Properties, is under construction.
Photo courtesy Gehry Partners, LLP.
This was an opportunity to combine work with a short vacation and skip arcspace updates for a couple of weeks.
Flying in from Los Angeles we landed at Beijing Capital International Airport, the world’s largest and most advanced airport building, designed by Foster + Partners.
Photo © Michael Weber
Stayed again at The Opposite House, designed by Kengo Kuma, my favorite hotel in Beijing. The ground floor lobby, that doubles as a contemporary art gallery, showed large paintings from Jin Yu’s Touch Spot Series - Unbalanced State of Mind and Feng Shu’s handpainted porcelain and stainless steel sculptures.
Photo © Michael Weber
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Have visited Arata Isozaki’s CAFA Art Museum, smelled the blossoming Lotus flowers by the hip Huo Hai Lake, and attempted to sit in Arne Jacobsen’s Egg in Sanlitun Village.
Photo © Iwan Baan
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Will catch an opera at the The National Centre for the Performing Arts, designed by Paul Andreu, and maybe a swim at China's National Aquatics Center, nicknamed the Water Cube, now turned into Asia’s largest indoor water park.
Photo courtesy Paul Andreu
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The underwater entry to The National Centre for the Performing Arts
Photo courtesy Chris Bosse
August 23, 2010