If you go to Beijing for the Olympics you can see some really expensive architecture. You can also find some cheap knockoffs – something China is infamous for.
As with retail, the architectural knockoffs can be just as amusing. Perhaps they don’t recreate the original faithfully but they give you something for the effort, even if a kind of commentary on the value of the original.
Of course these images show mimicry of the ‘birds nest’ and ‘water cube’ facilities built for the Beijing Olympic Games.
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