Dongfangzhimen - The Big Pants Building in Suzhou Shi, China

It is said that China builds, on average, a new skyscraper every five days. And, with the country's continued efforts to forge forward with the growth of mega-cities seemingly overnight, some of those buildings aren’t going to please everyone. Nearly half of the twenty tallest buildings in the world currently reside in mainland China, and burgeoning new cities want to keep up with the ultra-modernist trends they have seen in Shanghai and Beijing. As a result, some pretty ‘out-there’ structures have appeared over the last few years, prompting Premier Xi Jinping himself to criticize the trend, c

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