• ‘A cave complex worthy of Batman!’ Mind-boggling buildings that showed the world a new China

    Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
    The birth of the People’s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different storyIn 1954, an issue of Manhua, a state-sponsored satirical magazine in China, declared: “Some architects blindly worship the formalist styles of western bourgeois design. As a result, grotesque and reactionary buildings have appeared.”Beneath the headline Ugly Ar

Follow @architectureuk1 on Twitter!