Chinese Architects Attempting to Faithfully Recreate Austrian UNESCO World Heritage Site

Speaking of China, as we were in that last post, currently making the rounds this week is a story out of Spiegel about a small mountain town in Austria named Hallstatt that has found itself the muse of a Chinese architecture firm. However, not wanting to merely create something inspired by the sleepy, waterfront hamlet, the firm has decided that it will make an outright recreation of the town, just located “in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.”