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Esther Fung, You Say Weird, I Say Beautiful: Xi Jinping Criticism Doesn’t Ruffle SOHO China. China Real Time, Nov 3, 2014 blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/11/03/you-say-weird-i-say-beautiful-xi-jinping-criticism-doesnt-ruffle-soho-china/
 
 Note:
 (a) Sky SOHO  凌空SOHO
 skysoho.sohochina.com
 ("位于上海大虹桥核心区")
 
 The architect is
 Zaha Hadid
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid
 (born in 1950 in Baghdad)
 
 She is a British citizen.
 (b) "Some strange-looking buildings in China include Tianzi Hotel in Langfang, in Hebei Province, which includes a 10-story building depicting Fu, Lu and Shou, the Chinese gods of fortune, prosperity and longevity. There is also a 10-story, teapot-shaped building in Wuxi in Jiangsu province, a reference to the red clay teapots the area is known for."
 
 Tianzi Hotel  廊坊天子大酒店 (河北省廊坊市三河市廊坊燕郊開發區)
 
 (c) "Ms Hadid also designed Galaxy SOHO, an office and retail building shaped like an egg near Beijing’s Chaoyangmen subway station and Wangjing SOHO in northeast Beijing, a three-tower complex designed to look like mountains."
 (i) Galaxy SOHO  银河SOHO
 galaxysoho.sohochina.com
 (ii) Wangjing SOHO  望京SOHO
 wangjingsoho.sohochina.com/
 
 望京
 zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/望京
 (由历史上区域内的大、小望京村而得名)
 
 is a neighborhood in Beijing.
 
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