... and also doubled down on the Chrysler Building over on Lexington. I find this Chongqing tower grotesque and tasteless, but I can also imagine 50 years from now, when the Chinese have learned something about zen and graceful design, that art historians will go ga-ga over this like people do now to the chinoiserie of San Francisco Chinatown.

Here are a couple more pictures. A little surprising for me, but my mind was so preoccupied with work on that trip that, if I didn't have these pictures, I would not have remembered that this was a Sheraton.





Christmas tree, gilded hippos, and "Las Vegas All Night Party Town" (what that sign says). Nevermind the Great Proletarian Revolution happened.