Beijing's Top Ten Buildings of 1990s Voted InMay 15 saw Beijing publish the result of " top architectural buildings of the 1990s" via public ballot.By votes, the best ten buildings are in order as follows: Central Television Tower, National Olympics Sports Center and Asian Games Village, Beijing New World Center, Exhibition Greenhouse of Beijing Botanical Garden, New Building of Capital Library, New Library of Qinghua University, Office Building of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing Handerson Center, Sun DongAn Plaza, and Beijing International Financial Building. Over the past ten years or so more and more buildings in Beijing were constructed via hi-tech and highly intellectualized techniques instead of a meager piling-up of bricks, tiles, mortar, sand and stone-pieces, said Liu Longhua, general manager of Beijing Construction Engineering Group. But behind the beautiful facades of these buildings full of exaggeration and personality there epitomizes a lot of hi-tech technologies. For example, the reinforced concrete technique was adopted in the construction of the 405-meter-high television tower. By PD Online staff member Li Heng |
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