Tianamen Revolution

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Renowned architect proposes turning Beijing centrepiece into a forest

Video: Jonathan Watts interviews Ma Yansong

Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Friday May 4, 2007
The Guardian


Chinese architect Ma Yansong's model for a greener, cleaner Tiananmen Square



For the past 50 years Tiananmen Square has been the nearest thing the Chinese Communist party has had to holy ground. It is the plaza that Mao built, famed for its rallies during the Cultural Revolution, and it became notorious after the bloody crackdown on student protesters in 1989. But in a sign of widening intellectual debate in China, one of the country's leading young architects has proposed a radical transformation of the square

in http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2072172,00.html#article_continue

Entrevista com o Arquitecto - http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,2069107,00.html

[Dreamer]

A ser verdade e a concretizar-se é sem dúvida uma grande mudança para a cidade... basta ver o que a história guardou como acontecimentos mais e menos trágicos na praça de tianamen...