Published: February 9th, 2022,
Last updated: February 9th, 2022

The Big Air Shougang Park is currently causing heated debate on social media channels like Twitter. The 64-meter-high and 164-meter-long ski jump was built for the Winter Olympics in the middle of a decommissioned steel mill in Beijing’s western Shijingshan district. Critics say that dirty cooling towers instead of snow-covered mountains are typically Chinese. In the German Ruhr region, they would perhaps call it industrial chic.