Friday, November 18, 2011

Steel Mill in Jiuquan, Gansu, China

I love Chinese industrial structures. They have a kind of dystopian sci-fi nature about them that your don't get in the west anymore -  all coal dust and desert sand, with no apparent sign of human habitation. Until, that is, you scroll around a bit and find beautiful empty freeways, hundreds of apartment blocks and spacious urban plazas.



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This part of China is filled with fascinating stuff...

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/huge_scale_mode.html

http://gizmodo.com/5859081/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-middle-of-the-desert

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