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http://www.frontop.cn/xgt/05/004.jpg

Does that have any special meaning to it? Does it symbolise something?

It's a town that is famous for producing lamps and lights

It's a town that is famous for producing lamps and lights

heh, i havent heard of that before, thanks for you info.

it isnt exactly pretty in my opinion, but i guess you got to have something to lure the tourists to your town, right? :-)

right. Remember when they first build the Effiel Tower, the Parisian thought that it looked like a giant lamp post. Now, this is really a giant lamp psot

Nice, how tall is it supose to become?

Wow, sleepless Zhongshan.

Is this a Chinese-style lamp?

The city is now producing most of the lamps and lighting equipments being sold all over the world. It is otherwise known as the lamp city.

It's 253.8 meters tall with a museum of different kind of lamps

construction started yesterday

Any construction pictures?

that is the dummist thing i've ever see...

Looks interesting.

Sweet lamp! I have refrained from comment about this one for awhile b/c tow specific but unnamed forumers, who never talk about architecture, will visciously attack me for bad mouthing this lamp b/c it is in China. If you like having cutting edge stuff, you have to put up with some Kitsch too.

where is this exactly in Zhongshan?

great!! got construction?? already??

Hi Guys,
I was looking for places for my Cantonese partner and I to visit in Zhongshan about a month ago, and happened upon internet articles on the Giant King Lamp Museum, as well as this thread discussing its existance/non-existence. A friend was travelling in the Zhongshan area and told me of his visit to a five storey lamp museum during the time I was planning our trip, but this was in an existing ordinary building. We have now jetted off from Sydney to China, courtesy of Viva Macau airlines and have been to Zhuhai and travelled through Zhongshan to Foshan and Guangzhou.
When asking about the Giant Lamp Musuem in Zhuhai, people looked at us like we were crazy. However, eventually news came through from a local relative of my partner, that the Giant Lamp Building had not been started but that construction was still planned and that it would be in the Guzhen area of Zhongshan. Guzhen is on the western edge of Zhongshan where it borders with Foshan. I planned to see the old city of Zhongshan later in our trip and this would have brought us closer to the Guzhen area, but alas, our plans changed and we spent more time in Macau (including time at 'The Venetian' casino another amazing development) on the way back south. Hope this information helps.
Dave