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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:12:04 +0530
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http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg01472.shtml
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http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/issue2(2)abstracts.htm :-)
| contains some precedent analysis
Architexturez. wrote:
OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters by Ole Scheeren
and Rem Koolhaas
Architecture and Design Galleries
November 15, 2006–February 26, 2007
It is in a similar spirit that the firm has designed the nearby
Television Cultural Center (TVCC) Building, which looks like a
punctuated, multi-tiered skiramp. Unlike the larger CCTV Building,
however, which is mainly for professionals working in the Chinese
television industry, this structure is an entirely public space
containing cultural facilities and a luxury hotel.
At the core of both buildings, however, is a lie that goes to the heart
of almost every Deconstructivist project ever built: Its daring,
rebellious formal statement is really no more integral to the project as
a whole than a chassis is to a car. One of the exhibition wall texts is
at pains to assure us that "the two towers (of the TVCC) slope six
degrees in two directions, while their internal cores remain completely
vertical." In other words, under the post-modern carapace of these two
towers lurks something suspiciously like the standard glass and steel
towers of Midtown.
You will excuse me, I hope, if I pass over in silence OMA's expensive
talk about society and capitalism and the projection onto the entire
site of Piranesi's 18th-century map of Rome. All of that, together with
the curators' claim that "CCTV is the creation of an entire world," can
be pretty much discarded. One's assessment of this latest project from
OMA is predicated upon one's entirely personal tolerance and indulgence
of the intentional bulk and clumsiness of the complex as a whole. For my
part, I should rather have designed La Defense.
cont'd....
http://www.nysun.com/article/43671?page_no=2