Chinese Magic

No!  I have not rotated this photo in my computer. The building in the front is truly horizontal and was a part of ‘Lotus Riverside’, an unfinished residential complex in Shanghai, until 27^th of June 2009.

(Photo Bloomberg)

In October 2008, Shanghai resident director of the American consulting firm Mckinsey, reported in his official report, that the quality of new construction in Beijing is so poor that a major office block in the central business district ‘Chaoyang’, is likely to collapse. His prediction came true, not in Beijing, but in one of the upmarket middle class residential district in Shanghai.