Capital Constructs

Key to being able to get us from Nanjing to Beijing in just 3 hours and 13 minutes is the Nanjing Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge, so much so, in fact, they put it on a coin. After they depart from...

They didn’t have much time. In April 2011, Nanjing invited bids from global design companies to build a landmark building for the Youth Olympic Games that were then just 3 and a bit years away. Whoever got the job...

Situated at 1 Youju Lu (Post Office Road) on the lower slopes of Purple Mountain, a visit to the Lingyuan New Village Post Museum is to step back in time almost 100 years and into the daily lives of...

Standing as the tallest building in Nanjing for 14 years, the Jiangsu Nanjing Television Tower even today remains distinctive as an imposing pillar of modern-Marxist architecture that dominates the northern Hexi skyline by the Qinhuai River. Plans for the 318.5...

It used to be a somewhat rickety affair. And then in recent years it got a facelift. Well, more of a complete reconstruction job, really. For many though, it’s just not the same as it was back in the...

You likely walked through it on your very first visit to Nanjing, presuming your hosts were sufficiently benevolent. For they were probably aware that as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit today, the history of Xuanwu Gate is...

Founder of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, was responsible for the naming of much of Nanjing. The City name itself was his idea, as was Chaotian Palace. Today in part home to the Nanjing Municipal Museum, a world class facility...

With nothing else like it in the world, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is arguably our city’s finest structure. And it’s one with quite a tale to tell. Back in 1916, the initial inspiration for a fixed crossing of the...