2024-12-22T10:01:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/100940393/the-giant-chinese-odor-dome-and-other-sad-ideas-for-surviving-our-future-cities Alexander Walter 2014-06-02T14:15:00-04:00 >2014-06-10T18:54:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/03/03cee4cfd2f2f0b5a6c4747be528629c?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In an effort to remediate a large patch of heavily contaminated soil in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, engineers managed to unleash a smell so pungent that, last week, owners of the site took a new tactic: a giant tent to contain it all. [...] Though the 20,000-square-meter polyester tent contains an area roughly the size of three football fields and rises 36 meters near downtown, it only covers less than half of the contaminated area.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Previously: <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/98666532/giant-bubbles-could-be-built-over-beijing-parks-to-save-residents-from-smog-danger" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Giant bubbles could be 'built over Beijing parks to save residents from smog danger'</a></p>