This one almost got by me. (Thanks to MMG for bringing it to my attention.) Rem Koolhaas was featured in the Wall Street Journal last month in a piece entitled The Sky’s No Longer the Limit, concerning architecture and the the end of this latest golden age as major building projects throughout the world have [...]
Staying Up or Coming Down?
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Arup · CCTV · CCTV fire · Koolhaas · TVCC
The Future of the TVCC Fire
February 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments
What looks clear from the post-fire photos is that the basic structural shape of the TVCC building does not appear to have been altered at all. The lines look to be consistent with the pre-fire lines, though what it looks like inside is still, for me, a guess. I don’t believe that there is any [...]
Tags: Arup · Beijing · CCTV · CCTV fire · architecture
Arup on the CCTV Headquarters Building
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Arup, the engineering company partnered with OMA in the building of the CCTV Headquarters Building, has just published their latest issue of the The Arup Journal [2/2008], with an article entitled CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China: Building the structure.
This is the third article Arup has published in their journal concerning this project. The other two are [...]
Tags: Arup · Beijing · CCTV · architecture