At the east end of the Kerry Centre’s office building (xiezi lou) is a recently installed yin-yangish sculpture that allows for an interesting juxtaposition with the dramatic CCTV HQ Bldg across the Third Ring Road. There are several symbols on the sculpture that appear to be characters from an earlier script , though I don’t believe they are. They appear more like something from NASA’s Voyager. The curvilinear complimentary structures appear to be in balancing opposition to the building across the road, perhaps a harmonizing mojo to keep its neighbor from falling over. And that reminds me of a W. S Merwin poem:
How We are Spared
At midsummer before dawn an orange light returns to the
mountains
Like a great weight, and the small birds cry out
And bear it up
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1 chriswaugh_bj // Oct 12, 2008 at 9:41 am
The Kerry Centre felt CCTV’s angular, aggressive building was knocking their fengshui out of shape and decided to fix it up?
Funny, I always felt the Kerry Centre looked far more like something that was about to lift off into space than a place you’d go to for shopping or business.
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