Photo: AFP/Getty Images On the final day of New Year’s celebrations, errant fireworks set Rem Koolhaas’ TVCC building aflame , killing one firefighter and turning the building into an ominous sign for a difficult year ahead and a symbol for the end

of an early century starchitecture boom. But the fireworks that night also left the city under the thickest veil of pollution it has seen since May….

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Beijing’s New Year’s Fireworks Tripled Pollution Levels Overnight