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Article: Architects perform structural gymnastics in Asia.
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- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- February 21, 2007
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As the boom gathers momentum all over the world, New York architects are finding opportunities to design projects they have only dreamed about in places they never suspected they would gain entrance.
Nowhere is that possibility being felt more acutely than in China, where the quality of architecture is said to be improving by a generation every five years and western architects are being given the opportunity to perform structural gymnastics designing shapes that many would never dare to try and complete in New York.
In doing so, both Chinese culture, and the lessons learned on their projects, shifts the scope of the work they bring back home.
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