The China northeastern city of Harbin is known as a “City of Ice” and a cradle of the ice-and-snow culture in the world. The long and frigid winter, and the high plasticity and hardness of ice blocks quarried from the Songhua River, furnish favorable conditions for ice and snow sculpture.

A 150-meter-tall hotel designed in the shape of a ping-pong racket will be built in Huainan city, East China’s Anhui province, as part of a complex to tap the wealth of the sports industry. The hotel, located in a planned Olympic park covering an area of over 1,000 mu (67 hectares), has an estimated investment of 300 million yuan. It will feature three parts, the top designed for sight-seeing, the  [ Read More ]

Bernardo and Tomas Medina are 4EyesPhoto, a Houston based father-son photography team. Bernardo’s photography journey expands 30 years; his work has been featured in books, magazines and publications around the world. His son Tomas grew up with his father’s photographic vision and together with vivid imagination they have developed a unique style of photography using these photography tutorials that evokes a sense of awe and wonder in the scenes they  [ Read More ]

As temperatures fall across China, the northeastern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China is gearing up for the 27th internationally acclaimed Ice and Snow Festival. Harbin Ice Festival provides the visitors each year a whole new world of ice and snow. The 27th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival begin from January 5, 2011 and last for over one month.

Last month, air traffic controllers in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, noticed odd, flashing lights on their radar screens, prompting officials to close the local airport “for safety reasons. ” The incident — now “corroborated” by newly released footage purportedly showing the mysterious lights — marked the third time this year that a Chinese airport has been closed as a result to UFO activity.

On July 9th, 2010, a huge unexplained light show with an object in front of it appeared over the Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China, and caused massive flight delays. As of now, they’re still investigating the cause.

Shanxi Province, whose name means land west of Taihang Mountain, lies in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and on the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau. The Yellow, Haihe, and Fenhe Rivers flow through Shanxi, whose splendid landscape is graced by the celebrated Taihang and Liliang Ranges and Hengshan and Wutai Mountains. Most parts of the province are more than 1000 meters above sea level.

Harbin Ice and Snow World, one of the major venues for the 26th International Ice and Snow Festival, officially opens on January 5, 2010. The park features many large ice and snow sculptures based on landmarks from countries around the world. The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1963. It had been interrupted for a number of years during the Cultural Revolution until it  [ Read More ]

MAD’s design for the Urbanism\Architecture Shenzhen & Hongkong Bi-city Biennale, the Monster’s Footprint debuted in the Citizen Square of Shenzhen. It is a sunken space shade of a giant footprint, paved by pink EPDM material, functioning as the playground for the citizens in the city center. Shenzhen is a village turned city overnight. Enchanted by the bursting power of economic development, the city center is filled with extensive, and yet  [ Read More ]

World’s Fastest Train(in commercial use, the highest recorded speed is a Maglev train 361 mph) tops out at a speed of over 380 km/h, or over 235 mph, and the ride is surprisingly smooth. The Wuhan-Guangzhou high speed railway, which will shorten travel time from ten hours to three. Traveling from the central city of Wuhan all the way down the south coast, it’s also the longest rail line in  [ Read More ]