Curious article in the Shanghai Daily today (h/t @niubi on Twitter), reporting on a Beijing News article regarding repairs to the TVCC building, the burned and lesser brother/neighbor of the iconic CCTV Bldg. This has been expected since Rem Koolhaas stated in a WSJ piece The Sky’s No Longer the Limit back in May 2009 [...]
TVCC: Still a Hotel?
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: CCTV · CCTV fire · Koolhaas · TVCC
Staying Up or Coming Down?
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Arup · CCTV · CCTV fire · Koolhaas · TVCC
Another Fire at High Profile New Building
May 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Zaha Hadid’s under-construction new opera house in Guangzhou was the scene of a fire early this past Saturday morning, May 9th according to the Architect’s Journal. Though the fire was extinguished in an hour, the photo that accompanies this piece shows a good deal of smoke pouring out of one side of the building. I’ve [...]
Tags: architecture