Dashanzi, an industrial district on the northeastern outskirt of Beijing, is known today as the Art Zone of the capital. In fact, the area chosen in 1951 by Beijing and by its soviets friends to be the cradle of the future Chinese electronics industry is much bigger than that of the art galleries, the studios and the restaurants collectively known as 798. Behind it lie many of the old factories, designed by the east-german architects of the prestigious Bauhaus School, empty and derelict,...
more »Dashanzi, an industrial district on the northeastern outskirt of Beijing, is known today as the Art Zone of the capital. In fact, the area chosen in 1951 by Beijing and by its soviets friends to be the cradle of the future Chinese electronics industry is much bigger than that of the art galleries, the studios and the restaurants collectively known as 798. Behind it lie many of the old factories, designed by the east-german architects of the prestigious Bauhaus School, empty and derelict, waiting for a third renaissance to create their new reincarnation. Dashanzi, an industrial district on the northeastern outskirt of Beijing, is known today as the Art Zone of the capital. In fact, the area chosen in 1951 by Beijing and by its soviets friends to be the cradle of the future Chinese electronics industry is much bigger than that of the art galleries, the studios and the restaurants collectively known as 798. Behind it lie many of the old factories, designed by the east-german architects of the prestigious Bauhaus School, empty and derelict, waiting for a third renaissance to create their new reincarnation.
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