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Manhattan in the late 1920s was a city building upward at a pace that now looks unhinged. Money was cheap, confidence was total, steel-frame construction had removed the old…
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On the outskirts of Beijing, roughly 20 miles from the capital's center near the famous Badaling section of the Great Wall, an unfinished fairy-tale castle once rose out of…
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High in Bulgaria's Central Balkan Mountains, at 1,432 meters above sea level, a massive concrete disc rises from a remote peak like something that fell from the sky. Officially…
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On Taiwan's northern coast, in a district called Sanzhi near the town of Tamsui, a developer once set out to build a beachside resort unlike anything else in Asia,…
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About nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, a strange silhouette rises from the sea, a dense cluster of gray concrete buildings ringed by a high seawall, looking…
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There was a time when arriving in a great city meant stepping off a train into a hall built like a temple. Before airports flattened the experience of…