[dmoy]

Not just beijing, but other big northern cities as well. Hell even "small" cities. River fronts along songhua on all the cities around there have >>30 story apartment complexes with like 5-20 identical buildings each. One of them uses giant lights to make a sort of pixelated movie screen at night, which only passably works cus the buildings are all the same and run by the same complex.

Very much not just a southern thing.

[seanmcdirmid]

Ya, I should have mentioned that this happens throughout china, and probably much of Asia as well.

[reaperducer]

I've seen it in Korea, and occasionally in Singapore. Though usually each building is painted a different pastel shade to tell them apart.