A photographer captured the surreal beauty of Hong Kong´s bamboo scaffolding
(WorldNews China)

When American photographer Peter Steinhauer first visited Hong Kong in 1994 the sight of skyscrapers wrapped in canvas and skeletons of bamboo evoked the massive public artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. But this wasn’t anything close to an art installation, it was one of the oldest traditional building practices still in use, in a modern city that grows taller and denser every day. While a style of building that seems more at home in an ancient...