From Mao to Wow!
Just as many of New York City’s most iconic landmarks rose in breathtakingly brief succession a century ago, Beijing has been re-inventing itself since 2001 with a rush of showstopping buildings by internationally renowned architects: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron’s National Stadium, Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid complex, Rem Koolhaas’s China Central Television headquarters, and Norman Foster’s Terminal 3. On the eve of a controversial Olympics, Kurt Andersen sees China’s true promise in a more enduring spectacle of daring commissions, bravura engineering, and creatively humanistic design. Read this article by Kurt Andersen, August 2008 in VANITY FAIR=
Just as many of New York City’s most iconic landmarks rose in breathtakingly brief succession a century ago, Beijing has been re-inventing itself since 2001 with a rush of showstopping buildings by internationally renowned architects: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron’s National Stadium, Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid complex, Rem Koolhaas’s China Central Television headquarters, and Norman Foster’s Terminal 3. On the eve of a controversial Olympics, Kurt Andersen sees China’s true promise in a more enduring spectacle of daring commissions, bravura engineering, and creatively humanistic design. Read this article by Kurt Andersen, August 2008 in VANITY FAIR=
I was thinking about boycotting watching and paying any attention to the Olympics due to China failure on HUMAN RIGHTS but since we the USA now has such a bad record on Human Rights, I give up and maybe watching for my Bob Costas tear jerking bio's along with being on the look out for architecture.
****photograph by Stephen Wilkes- The anti-skyscraper at a mere 49 stories, the new CCTV Headquarters, designed by Rem Koolhaas, will contain almost as much floor space as the Empire State Building and Ground Zero’s forthcoming Freedom Tower combined. Once completed, it will be the world’s second-largest office building, after the Pentagon.
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