Comments on: The Future of the TVCC Fire http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/1190 The Kingdom from another angle. Thu, 03 May 2012 05:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Vincent Brannigan http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/1190/comment-page-1#comment-1576 Vincent Brannigan Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:55:52 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=1190#comment-1576 It is now July 18 and I have seen almost no technical information released about the fire. Has there been much in the Chinese language press? It is now July 18 and I have seen almost no technical information released about the fire.
Has there been much in the Chinese language press?

]]> By: Alex Pasternack http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/1190/comment-page-1#comment-1239 Alex Pasternack Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:54:06 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=1190#comment-1239 Jim: Thanks for this lucid post and the photo, as always. I put some of my own quick thoughts about the fire from the architectural perspective down on my blog, and thought I'd share. (And I hope we meet sometime!) http://theflashmemory.blogspot.com/2009/02/rem-koolhaas-oma-beijing-tvcc-fire.html Jim: Thanks for this lucid post and the photo, as always. I put some of my own quick thoughts about the fire from the architectural perspective down on my blog, and thought I’d share. (And I hope we meet sometime!)

http://theflashmemory.blogspot.com/2009/02/rem-koolhaas-oma-beijing-tvcc-fire.html

]]> By: jg http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/1190/comment-page-1#comment-1200 jg Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:12:15 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=1190#comment-1200 Because the building that burned is called the Television Culture Center, therefore TVCC. It's an OMA thing. OMA, the Koolhaas architecture group, has a counterpart called AMO. Or as they say on their website: "The counterpart to OMA’s traditional architectural practice is AMO, a design and research studio based in the company’s Rotterdam office. While OMA remains dedicated to the realization of buildings and master plans, its subsidiary AMO is a think tank that operates in areas beyond the boundaries of architecture and urbanism - including sociology, technology, media and politics." So it's the yin-yang, part/counterpart thing. The big building is called CCTV (Headquarters) and the one that burned is called TVCC. I had nothing to do with it. Everyone is calling it the Mandarin Oriental, which is another name for it, though it was called the TVCC from the beginning, long before the Mandarin Oriental showed up. Go to the link I have to OMA's website and you'll see it referred there too as TVCC. Just keeping the vocab straight. Because the building that burned is called the Television Culture Center, therefore TVCC. It’s an OMA thing. OMA, the Koolhaas architecture group, has a counterpart called AMO. Or as they say on their website: “The counterpart to OMA’s traditional architectural practice is AMO, a design and research studio based in the company’s Rotterdam office. While OMA remains dedicated to the realization of buildings and master plans, its subsidiary AMO is a think tank that operates in areas beyond the boundaries of architecture and urbanism – including sociology, technology, media and politics.”

So it’s the yin-yang, part/counterpart thing. The big building is called CCTV (Headquarters) and the one that burned is called TVCC. I had nothing to do with it. Everyone is calling it the Mandarin Oriental, which is another name for it, though it was called the TVCC from the beginning, long before the Mandarin Oriental showed up. Go to the link I have to OMA’s website and you’ll see it referred there too as TVCC. Just keeping the vocab straight.

]]> By: ?? http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/1190/comment-page-1#comment-1198 ?? Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:16:21 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=1190#comment-1198 Why do you keep calling CCTV "TVCC"? Why do you keep calling CCTV “TVCC”?

]]> By: China Journal : Best of the China Blogs: February 12 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/1190/comment-page-1#comment-1196 China Journal : Best of the China Blogs: February 12 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:23:00 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=1190#comment-1196 [...] looking ahead at the future of the burned structure: Even if the structure is salvageable, the images of the building as a towering inferno (with an [...] [...] looking ahead at the future of the burned structure: Even if the structure is salvageable, the images of the building as a towering inferno (with an [...]

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