Zaha Hadid

In China, a new building has a nearby knockoff before its even built

A Chinese company hired a well-known British architect to build a new complex in Beijing. Before the building could even be finished, however, another company, in the southern Chinese city of Chongqing, had produced a design so similar, it’s virtually impossible to think it’s anything but a knock-off of the original design.

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