Kremlin-style govt buildings seen in Beijing suburb  

北京門頭溝政府新辦公樓被指酷似“克里姆林宮”

“我們小區對面新蓋起了四棟樓，看著像克里姆林宮一樣。”昨天，家住門頭溝區濱河路的杜先生告訴北京青年報記者，小區東面新建起的四棟樓，樓頂裝著金光燦燦的大金球，其風格與俄羅斯總統官邸克里姆林宮有幾分相似。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- A set of new government buildings in Beijing's Mentougou District has sparked public debates as the buildings' design is similar to Moscow's Kremlin, the Beijing Youth Daily said on Monday.

With onion-shaped golden domes, white walls, and semicircular windows, the exotic-looking structures were built on the east side of Binhe Road in the district.

"Those buildings look like European-style churches when seen from afar," said a local resident surnamed Zhang.

The buildings have been under construction for about one year, and were recently been finished, Zhang added.

The buildings remind visitors of the magnificent architecture of the Cathedral of Annunciation, a five-century-old Russian Orthodox church located inside the compound of the Kremlin.

Five boards hang outside one of the buildings, indicating that the structure is a government building for the district's meteorological bureau.

It was the first to move into the new compound. Three others will house the district's seismological bureau, water bureau, and the bureau of landscape and forestry, the newspaper said.

One of the buildings in the compound cost 9.34 million yuan ($1.5 million) on design, according to government documents.

A largely rural district in western Beijing, Mentougou has an area of 1,321 square kilometers and some 270,000 residents.