Worlds collide! Mental Floss, my favorite random-stuff blog, has an article on Beijing’s constuction projects!

Beijing Capital International Airport鈥檚 new Terminal 3 will officially open tomorrow (February 29th). It is the world鈥檚 largest airport building with over ten million square feet of interior space. In fact, it is the second largest building in the world! Designed by Foster+Partners, it went from plans to opening day in less than four years. Ten villages were displaced to make room for the terminal. But don鈥檛 blame the Olympics; the old airport configuration was already straining under the load. Even this dragon-shaped design will be inadequate in another ten years or so.

Check out the whole article for cool pictures and Olympics constuction trivia… but one warning, the new CCTV tower doesn’t really look like that yet.

Via Mental Floss