{"id":48672,"date":"2017-03-18T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/put-us-on-the-map-please-chinas-smaller-cities-go-wild-for-starchitecture\/"},"modified":"2017-03-18T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T08:09:43","slug":"put-us-on-the-map-please-chinas-smaller-cities-go-wild-for-starchitecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/put-us-on-the-map-please-chinas-smaller-cities-go-wild-for-starchitecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Put us on the map, please: China's smaller cities go wild for starchitecture"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom mountain-shaped apartment blocks to the centre of braised chicken reinventing itself as \u2018Solar Valley\u2019, China\u2019s second (and third) tier cities are hiring big-name architects to help put them on the mapFrom egg-shaped concert halls to skyscrapers reminiscent of big pairs of pants, China\u2019s top cities are famously full of curious monuments to architectural ambition. But as land prices in the main metropolises have shot into the stratosphere, developers have been scrambling to buy up plots in the country\u2019s second and third-tier cities, spawning a new generation of delirious plans in the provinces. President Xi Jinping may have issued a directive last year outlawing \u201coversized, xenocentric, weird\u201d buildings, but many of these schemes were already well under way; his diktat has proved to be no obstacle to mayoral hubris yet.From Harbin \u201cCity of Music\u201d to Dezhou \u201cSolar Valley\u201d, provincial capitals are branding themselves as themed enclaves of culture and industry to attract inward investment, and commissioning scores of bold buildings to match. Even where there is no demand, city bureaucrats are relentlessly selling off land for development, hawking plots as the primary form of income \u2013 accounting for 80% of municipal revenues in some cases. In the last two months alone, 50 Chinese cities received a total of 453bn yuan (\u00a354bn) from land auctions , a 73% increase on last year, and it\u2019s the provincial capitals that are leading the way. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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From mountain-shaped apartment blocks to the centre of braised chicken reinventing itself as \u2018Solar Valley\u2019,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-cF2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40896,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/second-tier-cities-outperform-first-tier-peers-in-chinas-property-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":48672,"position":0},"title":"Second-tier cities outperform first-tier peers in China\u2019s property market","date":"January 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r First-tier cities are no longer the only option for Chinese homebuyers as prominent second-tier cities, with larger land supply and less crowded living environment, are drawing attention from both developers and end-users. 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