New China Archive

Apartment Towers in Wuhan

Among the more shocking things about China are the thousands of nearly identical apartment towers that stretch into the horizon. Below are some of the buildings that surrounded me when I moved to Wuhan in 2019.

An apartment complex in Hongshan, Wuhan, PRC China (May 2019)
I lived next to this street for the entire three years of the Chinese zero-covid lockdowns (March, 2019)
Exploring the top of a local Wuhan building in the fog (April, 2019)
The apartment complex adjacent to mine at night (Wuhan, March, 2019)