The last remnants of red brick are now neatly hidden under the warmth of the grey concrete. And again, yet another main hutong entrance shot. Expect many of these over the next few months Looking out from the NW room’s balcony entrance Double-time on the dining room The entrance to the NW room won’t look […]
Day and night — about 4 days of work to completely cover all messy redness with some nice grey concrete. Check out the entranceway from the restaurant. There will be glass there soon Inspecting his evening work Relaxing on a pile of rubble after finishing up the southern garden wall’s concrete
Gazing out towards the entrance from the lobby we can start getting some ideas of what the view will begin to look like. It’s quite a big view to cover as well: 2500x3000mm of glass. You don’t see any glass coming just yet, but at least some of these red bricks will finally begin disappearing. […]
Saving both time and money, we’ve gone with large concrete slabs for upper-area roofing that can support people, but not full floor structures. These things are huge, and heavy. A total of 18 workers were needed to lift each one up to the second floor! Restaurant main entrance A few slabs resting above the dining […]
Here the worker is putting on the finishing touches of a grey brick wall that only functions to block the ugliness from one neighbour. The new wall is especially nice in the late afternoon sun! Here’s the wall from down below. Next to it is the back of the kitchen.
Today is grey brick day again. This time an important visual part of the second floor will be raised up high in order to add a mask of traditional grey bricks on top of the new modern structure within. Check out the view of the bell tower! 2 hours later, it is all done. The […]
Here comes the second floor, structural beams and all. On the right side is the dining room, the left is a kitchen – mostly Up comes the kitchen
It’s time. Forget about safety, about cranes, tools and most other common sense. Today is completely about destruction, and big, heavy falling objects. 18 year-old up on the top, straddling the tree for dear life. Absolutely insane worker standing beneath the falling branches holding a chainsaw on full throttle the entire time Guiding the branches […]
Tomorrow the government has promised to take down the tree, so here are a few last moment shots of what the place looks like with a giant 50 year old 25m high tree.
It’s time to get our most important central public space up. The walls have mostly been there for quite some time now, but now we get to put in the support beams for the roof and then pour in the concrete base for the floor. Our main foreman Mr. Liu, with Mr. Guo looking on.. […]
