An amazing picture of the CCTV Building devastated by yesterdays fire was published in Gizmodo. Secrecy has sorrounded the whole event, but for now, the official story is that the Mandarin Oriental, located at the top of the building, caught fire from several fireworks set off to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
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Actually the building burned was the TVCC -building (Television Cultural Center), not the China Central Television (CCTV) -building.
who is gonna be responsable for that mess???!!!
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kurwa
Born by a desire to distinguish itself from the the 9/11 reconstruction as stated by Rem Koolhaas. This dramatic fire has connected the CCTV back to a global Tragedy. It is quite amazing to see that the birth of the idea behind the TCCV (the global accident, fire, the ruin) has resurface at 3 or 2 months before its opening.
Koolhaas remains silent… while Balmond is flying there, seeing his masterpiece, the structure, still holding against the sky…
sux!’
the person who fired the “tvcc” get fired…..
xus!’
the person who fried the “ctcv” get red if…..
architecture on fire!!!
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Terrible view, first thing i thought was ‘how could it fire that way, if using modern technology is ment’?
so, now let’s see what cr*p koolhaas comes up with. I can’t even image the amount of BS, manifestos and other stuff that their going to come up with at OMA. More publicity for them… ugh…