The story behind China's unprecedented museum building boom.
smeary globs of thick white paint on an artist's palette if viewed from above. The booming metropolis of Guangzhou also commissioned Hadid to design their $300 million, 70,000 square meter opera house, which is supposed to look like two pebbles being swept away by the Pearl River, according to the architect.
The China Art Museum, also called the China Art Palace, a museum of modern Chinese art located in Pudong, Shanghai. The reason for these empty museums isn't because the Chinese have a particular hankering for blank white walls and barren hallways, but because of the peculiar nuances of China's development model.
so they are perpetually cash-strapped and grasping for fresh streams of income. New urban development projects have been the answer for most municipalities, as the proceeds from land sales and the initial taxes and fees that come from the sale of new property adequately fills the public coffers -- with land sales alone often amounting toThe effect is something akin to a Ponzi scheme: new cities and districts must be created to fund existing cities and districts.
However, as is often the case in China, once the construction is finished the real development begins. After receiving accolades for building a world-class landmark, the developers often find themselves in more unfamiliar territory: actually running a museum.
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