Rotten Tails & Lotus Flowers

摘要

In the 1990s, a bursting-bubble economy and a corruption purge left many skyscrapers in China's major cities unfinished. As these abandoned structures began to age and decay, contributing to a growing sense of urban blight, the Chinese named them "rotten-tail buildings." The nomenclature was visceral but effective, A decade later, after economies and fortunes shifted, cities began reclaiming and remaking such structures. One of these concrete rotten tails was transformed into nothing less than an iridescent glass lotus flower-a symbol of reawakening.