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Mandarin Hotel Beijing burns down on last day of Lantern Festival 2009

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orlaska on February 12, 2009

China's Lantern Festival and an unfortunate ending (Monday, February 10, 2009)

A building in the new China Central Television (CCTV) complex, still under construction, is seen on fire in Beijing February 9, 2009. The fire, started inadvertently by an unofficial fireworks display for the Lantern Festival staged by CCTV officials, destroyed the unoccupied building, designed by Rem Koolhaas, which was meant to house the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. (REUTERS/China Daily).

photo caption: www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/chinas_lantern_festival_and_an.html

(newspaper article: www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/world/asia/10beijing.html)

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