Abandoned skyscrapers and unfinished construction projects stand as monuments to economic excess—forgotten, yet ever-present in the urban landscape. As China’s decades-long rapid growth slows, countless developments have been left unfinished due to funding shortages, market downturns, or flawed planning. By documenting these structures, I seek to confront the waste embedded in capitalist systems, question the logic of resource allocation policies, and examine the environmental and social costs of overdevelopment. I captured the traces that time has etched onto the surfaces of these structures. Some abandoned spaces have even become sites of natural regeneration, where plants and animals reclaim areas once dominated and disrupted by humans. Life persists within these seemingly lifeless environments.