[Randex]Debate on Beijing civic architecture triggers ‘nationalistic’ sentiments

[O-Land News Junkie]

In Ayn Rand’s epochal novel The Fountainhead, the brilliant but uncompromising architect Howard Roark riles against “architectural monstrosities” that pander to crass, commercial tastes - and fights a lonely and wearisome battle to uphold “the triumphant role of creators”. In Beijing today, in the run-up to next year’s Olympics, a similar battle centred around civic architecture is being waged.

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