高中二年级英语(人教版)上册 Unit 3 Integrating Skills 1

　　A SECOND LIFE FOR FACTORY 798

　　Everywhere in the world old buildings, such as schools, hospitals, factories and even churches are left empty because they are no longer needed. It is usually difficult to find other companies to move into the old buildings, because the floor plan -- the size and the number of halls -- does not fit their company. Often, these buildings are pulled down after having stood empty without use for many years.

　　Factory 798 in the east of Beijing was a building like that. Once an important army factory in Beijing, Factory 798 was designed by East German architects and built with Russian help in the early 1950s. It is one of the most important examples of factory architecture left from that time. The huge factory halls of brick and glass were built in the 1920s modem style. They are decorated with small round windows that remind you of ships, bent roofs and twenty-foot high walls of glass that make them special when compared with other architecture from the same period. The simple style of the buildings and the fact that they are German set them aside as very different from Chinese architecture.

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