Travel Routes

Raffles City Chongqing: The Eight Ships That Sail Above the Two Rivers

At the very tip of the Yuzhong Peninsula, where the muddy Yangtze collides with the green Jialing, eight glass sails rise 350 metres into the mist and lock themselves together with a single 300-metre sky bridge. This is Raffles City (来福士) — Moshe Safdie's love letter to a port city, a vertical shipyard suspended above one of the busiest confluences in China. It is controversial, enormous, and impossible to ignore: once you see it, you will never look at Chongqing the same way again.