New Chinese Embassy Opens
4 08 2008
Just in time for the Olympics, China has finally opened their new Embassy along Connecticut Ave after years of construction. The massive limestone building is designed by famed architect I.M. Pei’s sons and as you can see is not reminiscent of any particular architectural style. It looks more like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude to us, than a building representing chinese style and architecture, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
The 250,000 sq-ft building was built entirely with laborers flown in from China and housed in DC while work was done. It apparently has a huge 50 ft tall entrance hall featuring numerous works also flown in from China. We are really interested in getting to see the building on the inside for ourselves, hopeful they will have some type of open house or grand gala we can get into in the near future.
[Photo Credit: Biddle - Washington Post]
Haha, it really does look like Supermans fortress
A friend privy to information informed me that this building was basically built with slave labor.