China in Miniature: Models Photo Series
I've recently taken an (admittedly very amateur) interest in model photography, and China gave me no shortage of samples to work with. With new, giant architectural marvels springing up everywhere, China is eager to show them off. Both Shanghai and Beijing have urban development museums with massive basketball court-sized city models that take up entire floors of the respective buildings. (Ted Fishman described the burgeoning Shanghai model in detail in his book China, Inc.) Not to mention, many of the companies we visited had their own campus models in their in-house museums or lobbies.
So with that, here are some of the better results. I will probably put many of these on Flickr later in high resolution, so I'll post the link for that when I do. Update: Photo set now on Flickr!
Beijing urban development museum:
Geely Automotive headquarters:
Hangzhou Steel:
Three Gorges Dam:
-Alex Kraus