THE almost two-meter-high sculpture Liu Xiaofan admired at an exhibition,and which he assumed was bronze,turned out to have been made from recycled building waste.Liu immediately thought of the pile of demolition debr...THE almost two-meter-high sculpture Liu Xiaofan admired at an exhibition,and which he assumed was bronze,turned out to have been made from recycled building waste.Liu immediately thought of the pile of demolition debris next to his home.He had witnessed new construction waste steadily piling up next to his apartment building and the community public lawn.Dust floated high and free as the wind blew and deposited it on his balcony.This epitomizes the "metabolism" of Chinese cities.展开更多
文摘THE almost two-meter-high sculpture Liu Xiaofan admired at an exhibition,and which he assumed was bronze,turned out to have been made from recycled building waste.Liu immediately thought of the pile of demolition debris next to his home.He had witnessed new construction waste steadily piling up next to his apartment building and the community public lawn.Dust floated high and free as the wind blew and deposited it on his balcony.This epitomizes the "metabolism" of Chinese cities.