Chongqing Hongyadong — Stacked City Night
799.00 د.إ
The Hongyadong stilted building complex in Chongqing at night — the 11-storey structure built on wooden stilts down a cliff face above the Jialing River, its neon commercial signage and restaurant lanterns reflected in the dark river below.
Description
Chongqing is the only major Chinese city built entirely on mountain topography — the confluence of the Jialing and Yangtze rivers at a point where the surrounding terrain rises immediately from the waterfront in steep bluffs, producing a city whose street levels can differ by 10 storeys within a single block. The Hongyadong complex — a reconstruction of the traditional stilted building style that historically occupied the Jialing River bluffs — extends 11 storeys down a cliff face on stilts, its neon commercial facades and restaurant lanterns visible from the Jialing River surface. This image was made from a river cruise boat at 8pm, the ship at mid-river distance from the complex: the building’s illuminated facade fills the left two-thirds of the frame, its reflection in the moving river creating a shimmering distorted double below. Shot at f/4 on a 24-70mm zoom with a 1/8-second exposure at ISO 3200, the reflection movement creates an abstract pattern beneath the sharp facade.
