#2:'Floating' Housing in China Looks Both Eerie and Beautiful

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Built to appear as though they are floating, these new, stalwart apartment buildings—by
award-winning British architect David Chipperfield—are actually set on an a preserved national wetland.
Encompassing a whopping

127,000 square feet (11,800 square meters, to be precise), the Xixi Apartments

 are clad in a dark stone that gives them an eerily beautiful

 quality. Like buildings designed in the vernacular architectural language, these units sit atop heavy plinths, which adds to their fortress-like look.