Weirdest commie buildings

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Stalinist realism. We've all heard of it. Well, most of us anyway. It's an architectural style that still defines large swaths of urban territory across East Europe, parts of Asia and even Africa and Latin America. Wherever communism has set foot at least for a while, we see gargantuan concrete mastodons. We've talked about life in those monsters

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[mikeyxw]

The communist era buildings in China were nowhere nearly that inspired. There were of course apartment blocks that pretty much looked identical... thousands of them. On some, the trim was a bit more faded than others which kinda broke up the monotony. There were also plenty of government buildings that had the same look to them, but again, nothing too interesting. They had to wait until they embraced capitalism to really fail. Here are a few examples:

The Pants building in Beijing's financial district:


The Tianzi Hotel. Yes, they really did this.


The Pangu Plaza. Okay, the building itself isn't so bad, but after the Olympics, the building was taken over by IBM, who put a huge logo where the "Pan Gu" currently is and the four story tall screen on the front of the building continually shows Amway adds.


And finally, the China Daily building.