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No. This not the artist Christo’s new house. It is years’ work by photographer Peter Steinhauer. Steinhauer has spent a long time observing the architecture of Hong Kong. This photographer studies different buildings in the city in the way an entomologist studies a butterfly. When it comes to a new building, the sturdy flexible bamboo scaffolding used to help build these giant constructs is covered in a nylon gauze to prevent anything from falling to the city streets below. It’s as if they were a giant cocoon. The building
will not emerge from its cocoon until it has been totally transformed.