After a four-year, $380 million refurbishment, the National Museum of China finally opened it’s doors to the public as the largest exhibition space on the planet…
Matthew Niederhauser // Red China Rising: Revolution to Recreation
As the Chinese Communist Party prepares to celebrate it’s 90th anniversary on July 1, nationalistic tourists are flocking in droves to communist heritage sites across China…
Matthew Niederhauser // The Ordos Real Estate Bubble
The landscape around Ordos was never a forgiving place. Its remoteness and lack of water always kept growth in check. Now the Inner Mongolian mining center produces a third of China’s coal and the government decided to use the revenues to build and an entire new city.
Matthew Niederhauser // Tianducheng: The Heavenly Paris of China
As new cities continue to spring up across China almost overnight, real estate developers are taking architecture and urban design in wildly different directions…
Matthew Niederhauser // Indonesian Hardcore Revival
Indonesian hardcore is back. A growing number of youth are returning to hardcore musical roots that first emerged in Java during the early nineties…
Matthew Niederhauser // South China Mall
The South China Mall was the largest retail space every conceived in China, but 6 years later, it maintains a 1% occupancy rate at best…
Matthew Niederhauser // Dostoevsky Underground
The Dostoevskaya Moscow Metro station, named in honor of Russia’s dark prince of literature, delves into the most gruesome nooks of Dostoevsky’s oeuvre…
Matthew Niederhauser // 2010 Shanghai World Expo – Lighting Up the Night
Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, the six-story structure is covered with 60,000 willowy rods…
Matthew Niederhauser // Happy Magic Water Park
The Water Cube on Beijing’s Olympic Green is easily one of the most enthralling aquatic centers on the planet…
Matthew Niederhauser // 2010 Shanghai World Expo – Axis of Evil
The Shanghai World Expo provides an opportunity for Iran, Iraq and N. Korea to show a favorable side to international media..
Matthew Niederhauser // Chongqing
Situated at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers, Chongqing is the fastest growing urban center in the world…
Matthew Niederhauser // World Cup 2010 – South Africa
Matthew Niederhauser takes a look over some of the stadiums that presented the 32 competing teams in 2010…
Matthew Niederhauser // Gulou
Gulou, one of the last and best preserved hutong neighborhoods in Beijing, is currently slated for redevelopment by the government…
Matthew Niederhauser // Visions of Modernity
As China continues to embrace what it considers a “modern” lifestyle, the city is setting new precedents for how people live..
Matthew Niederhauser // Shanxi Coal Mine
On March 28, the main shaft of the Wangjialing coal mine flooded when workers accidentally broke into an abandoned shaft filled with water…
Matthew Niederhauser // Sri Lanka
As Sri Lanka emerges from decades of protracted civil war, it is now looking to take it’s position as a top tourist destination in Asia…
Matthew Niederhauser // Tuanjiehu
Located in the heart of Beijing’s central business district, Tuanjiehu Park easily takes the cake for a convenient respite from the summer heat…