The CCTV Building project has been rife with rumors since before the first hole was dug, and the latest one (via niubi at Twitter) was spotted on Weibao, a Chinese microblogging service. The rough translation (and I stress “rough”) is “Heard that my foolish masters’ big underpants scorched little brother [TVCC] must be demolished tomorrow, [...]
Always More Rumors
August 11th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Beijing · CCTV · CCTV fire · Koolhaas · architecture
And Yet A Few More CCTV Photos
May 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments
It usually takes me a bit of time to go through my photos after a trip to my favorite site in Beijing, the CCTV Bldg. project (or what I sometimes refer to as metaphor central) on the East Third Ring Road. In the last few days I have finally gotten around to looking through what [...]
Tags: CCTV · CCTV fire · TVCC · architecture · photo
China’s Construction Habit
May 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
There is a perennial incompleteness that haunts mainland Chinese cities, second and third tier cities as well as the nation’s capital. In the foreground of the above photo you can see scaffolding, green construction mesh, and the top of a tent where migrant workers live in the very heart of the Central Business District, across [...]
Tags: CCTV · CCTV fire · TVCC · architecture
A Few More of the CCTV Project (color)
April 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Here are some photos of the CCTV in color, all taken in the late afternoon/early evening, April 23, 2010
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More CCTV Building Project Photos
April 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Photos of the continuing project. (click for bigger pic)
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TVCC: Still a Hotel?
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: CCTV · CCTV fire · Koolhaas · TVCC
Sm(f)og
December 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Earlier this week while China was (and still is) doing Copenhagen, climate change and carbon chits, Beijing and Tianjin were muffled in a thick toxic fog that held the wintry coal-smoky air low to the ground to mix with the normal, everyday dose of vehicular and factory air pollution. If the air were a hospital [...]
Tags: Beijing · CCTV · architecture · fog · pollution
CCTV Tags
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments
The CCTV HQ project & site-specific graffiti. December 9, 2009 4:16 PM Larger version here.
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Seasonally Smoggy Greeting from Beijing’s Perpetual Architecture Project
December 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Beijing 3:45 PM, December 9, 2009 Larger version here.
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Madness: Coming or Going?
September 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Warning: imagined full-frontal content below In my last post I wrote about the pornographic flap over the CCTV Headquarters complex, the project that continues to knot a lot of knickers. And there is no sign that it’s about to let up. It has become the piñata that won’t stop giving: whack it again and it [...]