Unborn Cities, No.84, 2015. Gigantic LCD screens illuminate the central square of the Kangbashi District. Kangbashi is located outside of Ordos, a city in Inner Mongolia, and was created with an estimated investment of about 1.1 trillion yuan ($160 billion). It was planned to accommodate a population of more than a million people. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.07, 2015. A pavilion sits in front of a portion of the Yujiapu Financial District’s skyline, Binhai New Area, Tianjin. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.09, 2015. An LED-outlined community pavilion reflection in a pond near Changsha, Hunan Province. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.18, 2015. Residential buildings reflected in the manmade Meixi Lake, a new development outside of the city of Changsha in the Hunan province. Meixi Lake is a 50 billion yuan (7 billion dollar) city that is expected to house 180,000 people over 7 million square meters. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.88, 2015. An abstract sculpture frames a construction site near Meixi Lake outside of Changsha, Hunan Province. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.46, 2015. Completed office buildings in the Yujiapu Financial District, near the Binhai New Area, Tianjin. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.02, 2015. New residential buildings surround the construction of an aquarium near the Yujiapu Financial District, Binhai New Area, Tianjin. The cost of this new area is estimated to be around 200 billion yuan (32 billion dollars) once complete, and will be inhabited by upwards of 500,000 people. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.35, 2015. A skyscraper awaits its glass façade in the Yujiapu Financial District, near the Binhai New Area, Tianjin. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.01, 2015. A portion of the Yujiapu Financial District’s skyline in the hazy light of dawn near the Binhai New Area, Tianjin. © Kai Caemmerer
Unborn Cities, No.21, 2015. Construction of a building that belongs to an architectural project called the Ordos 100 which was master planned by the artist Ai Wei Wei in 2008. The plan is to bring a mix of American suburbia and avant-garde architecture to the east of Ordos, a city in Inner Mongolia. © Kai Caemmerer