Cultural Centre in Beijing
- Sabine Drey
In the early 1950s, shortly after the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China, the “Dashanzi” industrial park was established in Beijing as an autonomous area with work-places, housing and the relevant infrastructure. Today, many of the industrial concerns that were originally established here are moving their headquarters to the periphery of the city, and the small-scale older factories are being converted to provide space for cultural activities. The complex that formerly housed the offset printers in the “798 Art Zone”, for example, grew to become a heterogeneous urban conglomerate.
