Above: This is SanLunMotoChe, or just Moti. I found it at GongTiBeiLu Avenue near Worker's Stadium. Dark green these are taxis. Photo gallery below.
Beijing Photo Safari near Workers Stadium
PICTORIAL - OLYMPIC CITY RENEWAL
I did walk-around photo safari near Workers Stadium in Beijing. It's busy area with all kinds of small events. There is a popular shopping market. Tens of old buildings are going down and making space for new. Sleepy and busy same time.
BeijingMan aka Kippo
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Above-1: Beijing Photo Safari. From Workers’ Stadium you can see XingFuCun Apartment building. When sales started apartments were 450m2 each, in 2 floors, price 17.000 RMB/m2, that makes over 750.000 EUR per apartment. But regulation changed and layouts changed to 90-258m2 apartments.
Above-2: Beijing Photo Safari. Three wheels made for 2 persons, driver and a traveler. Can sometimes have even three travelers. Traveler goes in via back door and sits back towards driver’s back. This Moti is new model. Near subway stations are plenty of dark green taxi Motis. Hop in and have fun but probably good idea to verify your insurance.
Above-3: Beijing Photo Safari. At Worker's Stadium.
Above-4: Beijing Photo Safari. At Worker's Stadium.
Above-5: Beijing Photo Safari. At Worker's Stadium. Water truck?
Above-6: Beijing Photo Safari. At Worker's Stadium.
Above-7: Beijing Photo Safari. Chivas at Worker's Stadium.
Above-8: Beijing Photo Safari. Chivas at Worker's Stadium.
Above-9: Beijing Photo Safari. At Worker's Stadium. What's hot?
Above-10: Beijing Photo Safari. At Worker's Stadium.
Above-11: Beijing Photo Safari. North gate of Workers’ Stadium, I saw this futuristic team preparing for a photo. I sort of joined. Team was kicking around, not fast enough for my needs.
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Above-13: Beijing Photo Safari. East gate of Worker's Stadium.
Above-14: Beijing Photo Safari. Poster says: I want to erase architecture. Pixel group at right down corner is based on Sibelius Monument in Helsinki, actually pretty exactly.
Above-15: Beijing Photo Safari. Torn down. Beijing Olympic Games 2008 will be prepared with $40.000M. This means upgrade. Old houses go, new offices and apartment come instead. This old house is near SanLiTun bar street, in that area tens of houses are marked with torn down” to give space for new Beijing.
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Above-19: Beijing Photo Safari. Some of these teardown houses were still alive. Someone refuses to accept the offered compensation. Still living there, maybe no gas for cooking, water or electricity, and no heating for coming autumn.
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Above-29: Beijing Photo Safari. Old Beijing. Those white vertical cement pillars were added after major earthquake at TangShan near Beijing in 1976.
Above-30: Beijing Photo Safari. Old Beijing.
Above-31: Beijing Photo Safari. Chinese do new buildings with speed but inside works can take years to finalize. Many new office buildings in Beijing look half empty, office rents are kept high. Chinese companies, like TV maker Skyworth, often save and run business from apartments.
Chinese problem. Newer, non-state owned apartment buildings in Beijing lack professional house management. Apartment owners invest but house management companies are not responsible to owners and live still past non-market economy times. They are not willing and simply have't learnt yet how the houses should be managed. Instead, they find reasons not to serve owners and focus their own benefit. House management services are an opportunity for Singaporeans and Hongkongers in Beijing, they know how.
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Above-34: Beijing Photo Safari. This dead office tower is at GongTiBeiLu Avenue near Workers’ Stadium. A famous case, building has been unfinished at least 5 years.
UPDATE - November 2007: works started, this will soon be ready office building.
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Above-39: Beijing Photo Safari. YaShow Market. When in China, buy clothes. At YaShow the price can be good, not only for Beijingers but also for foreign tourists.
Google Earth: 39.93311N,116.44659E
At YaShow Market you find hundred+ small shops. It is possible to find high quality products with low prices: cotton trousers 8EUR, cotton shirts 5EUR, top quality T-shirts 4EUR, fashionable ties 2EUR, socks 1EUR. You need to bargain to get with these prices.
Near YaShow many small shops offer copies of Callaway or Taylormade golf sets for 125 EUR per a complete set. One seller advertised that visiting airplane crews are the best customers: One European flight crew just ordered 30 golf sets for their return flight to Europe. Recently Beijing has increased campaigns against copy products.
Above-40: Beijing Photo Safari. Bicycle repair service in front of YaShow Market. Beijing has excellent biking roads and millions of bikers. City is flat and during winter has only a few snow days.
Above-41: Beijing Photo Safari. Season's Park Apartments.
Above-42: Beijing Photo Safari. Newspaper.
Above-43: Beijing Photo Safari. Phone numbers.
Above-44: Beijing Photo Safari. Probably the best beef restaurant in Beijing.
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Above-46: Beijing Photo Safari. Side walk at GonTiBeiLu Avenue is suddenly blocked by this staircase. I saw Chinese woman hit her head badly onto it while walking and talking to her mobile phone.
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