China’s ugliest buildings: contest to celebrate unsightly architecture begins
by Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5PRK3)
This year's contenders include a violin-shaped church and a welcome to hell' glass bridge joining two mountains
An infamous hall of shame" listing of China's top 10 ugliest" buildings has kicked off with 87 bizarre designs in the running, including a violin-shaped church and an Inner Mongolia hotel in the form of a monstrous babushka doll.
Over the past 11 years a Chinese architecture website, archcy.com, has been inviting people to vote in the lighthearted annual contest that it hopes will encourage people to ponder the flexible notion of beauty.
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