{"id":37092,"date":"2021-09-20T22:52:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/20\/chinas-ugliest-buildings-contest-to-celebrate-unsightly-architecture-begins"},"modified":"2021-09-20T22:52:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:52:02","slug":"chinas-ugliest-buildings-contest-to-celebrate-unsightly-architecture-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37092","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s ugliest buildings: contest to celebrate unsightly architecture begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s contenders include a violin-shaped church and a \u2018welcome to hell\u2019 glass bridge joining two mountains<\/p>\n<p>An infamous \u201chall of shame\u201d listing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>\u2019s top 10 \u201cugliest\u201d buildings has kicked off with 87 bizarre designs in the running, including <a href=\"http:\/\/2021.archcy.com\/votes\/2021\/show\/12864\">a violin-shaped church<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/2021.archcy.com\/votes\/2021\/show\/12932\">Inner Mongolia hotel<\/a> in the form of a monstrous babushka doll.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 11 years <a href=\"http:\/\/2021.archcy.com\/\">a Chinese architecture website<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/20\/chinas-ugliest-buildings-contest-to-celebrate-unsightly-architecture-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s contenders include a violin-shaped church and a \u2018welcome to hell\u2019 glass bridge joining two mountainsAn infamous \u201chall of shame\u201d listing of China\u2019s top 10 \u201cugliest\u201d buildings has kicked off with 87 bizarre designs in the running, including a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,91,41,50,71,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37093,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092\/revisions\/37093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}