No city has physically transformed itself in recent years quite like Beijing, site of the 2008 Olympics. In fact, as contributing editor Kurt Andersen explains in the August issue (“From Mao to Wow!”), the last metropolis to undergo such an architectural facelift was New York City, in a building boom that resulted in the Brooklyn Bridge and the Chrysler Building. As these images attest, the new Beijing is a city where, when it comes to design, nothing is forbidden.

photographs by Todd Eberle and Stephen Wilkes WEB EXCLUSIVE July 10, 2008

PS:如果单从照片的冲击力来看，前三张可算精品，但这又能说明什么呢？我想达芬奇的蒙娜丽莎的迷人之处绝非来自简单的微笑，而更多是画面丰富的景致给人的思考。