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Recording his city's rich architectural heritage has been a demoralizing task for Shanghainese photographer Deke Erh. While Art Deco buildings in Miami, New Zealand's Napier and even the Eritrean town of Asmara are lovingly tended, Shanghai has demolished scores of equally historic structures in its headlong rush for...
The publication of Erh's self-funded new book Shanghai Art Deco is testament to the 47-year-old photographer's determination in the face of the city's merciless wrecking ball. In 320 pages and over 1,000 photographs, Erh and other photographers capture many of the city's...
THE END OF HISTORY Thousands of Beijing's historic hutongs (house-lined alleys) are being bulldozed to make way for new construction while 20,000 home façades are being repainted.
Meet Nathanael G. Mason. His clipped British accent may throw you for a loop. No, he’s not a redcoat who eschewed the Oxbridge system for a Harvard education. He’s actually French—from Annecy, a small town in the Alps near Geneva. And...
Lowell House became a campanological haven this week as Russian bell ringers, bell makers, and a monk arrived in a new stage of the Lowell Russian bells’ long journey home. The fate of the 17 historic bells, currently on a 77-year hiatus from Moscow’s...