Chinese Archimage Phenomena

Someone found out a residential building in Chonging like a face, and very popular Chinese character 囧 (jiǒng). from wikipedia : "Jiong (Chinese: 囧; variant: 冏; Hanyu Pinyin : jiong3; British Cantonese : Gwing) is a Chinese character meaning a "patterned window" or "as bright as the light peering from outside the window". The character is now rarely used in this sense. Internet emoticon usage The character for "Jiong" is nowadays more widely used on the Internet as an ideographic emoticon representing a range of moods, as it resembles a person's face. It is commonly used to express ideas or feelings such as annoyance, shock, embarrassment, awkwardness, scorn or the internet meme "DO NOT WANT". The use of Jiong as an emoticon can be traced to 2005 or earlier; it was referenced on 20 January 2005 in a Chinese-language article on orz . [1] The character is sometimes used in conjunction with orz, OTZ or its other variants to form ...

It seems that international hotel service enterprise Sheraton also shows their interests to Chinese style decoration. The funny story is, the planning department of Suzhou forces every investors (surely also architects) to make buildings with white walls and black tiles. Harmonious urban environment? I don't think so. [source: bendangwuren ]