These Photos are The China Report best of ChongwenMen Hutong in the Chongwen District during and after destruction (11-2004) to make way for the Glory City Appartments, to be completed in early 2007.
   
A view of construction area at Shang 2 Tiao I, before a hutong area I
A view of construction area at Shang 2 Tiao I, before a hutong area II
A view of construction area at Shang 2 Tiao I, before a hutong area II
Damaged and empty hutong remnants with Glory Plaza backdrop
Eerie view -empty space between ChongwenMen Dongdajie & Shang 2...
Eerie view -empty space between ChongwenMen Dongdajie & Shang 2...
Hutong remnants along Shang 2 Tiao, awaiting annihilation
Ghostly remnants of Hutong structures with Modern Housing backdrop I
Ghostly remnants of Hutong, woman searching, Modern Housing backdrop I
Empty space with hutong remnants, draglines and surrounding Flats1
Empty space with hutong remnants, draglines and surrounding Flats 1
Draglines at work clearing away Hutong Remnants
A Former Hutong residential Lane, now turned Nuclear Landscape
A Small Hutong Lane freshly leveled with former resident on House
Bulldozer in Action plowing down Hutong Housing whith Lone onlooker
A Bombed-out shell left after a days work with Bulldozer and Dragline
The machinery clearing away a last House with res. woman watching
The Old and the New - Destroyed Hutong cottage versus Modern City
Same Hutong Cottage from different angle
End of an Era, End of a Hutong Lane south-east of ChongwenMen I
End of an Era, End of a Hutong Lane south-east of ChongwenMen II
Group of Officials and Police Guards inspecting the demolition work 1
Group of Officials and Police Guards inspecting the demolition work 2
last remaining shed weathering the storms of Time with Skyline I
last remaining shed weathering the storms of Time with Skyline II
Close Up of a once proud Traditional Hutong Gate - last days
Heap of demolished Siheyuan House with ChongwenMen Dajie Backdrop
Last inhabited 19Th Century remnants at Shang 2 Tiao
The Future arising above the Chongwen District - New Appartments 1
The Future arising above the Chongwen District - New Appartments 2
View o/t construction area from Shang2 Tiao towards ChongwenMen Dajie
Once the neighborhood Muslim Restaurant, now a near abandoned Shell
The Last remaining Hutong Alley parallel of ChongwenMen Dongdajie I
Residents pass banner through dust at the last remaining Hutong Alley
Friendly Old Pensioner leaving his House underneath ChongwenMen
The Last remaining Hutong Alley parallel of ChongwenMen Dongdajie II
Tiny Hutong Cottage home with chongwenmen east avenue appartments
Penioners at their Hutong Cottage with Appartments Flat backdrop
Construction Pit of Future Glory City appts south of ChongwenMen I
Construction Pit of Future Glory City appts south of ChongwenMen II
Craterscape with hutong remnants and pre-modern skyline backdrop
Glory City construction pit with bleak Appartments skyline backdrop 1A
Glory City construction pit with bleak Appartments skyline backdrop 2A
Hutong Ruins with New World and Soshow Entertainment Mall Skyline
Ruins and construction area at former Hutong Area location
Hutong House ruin landscape and New World Mall background
Glory City construction pit with bleak Appartments skyline backdrop 3A
Glory City construction pit with bleak Appartments skyline backdrop 3B
View over concrete wall surrounding Construction/demolition Area