CCTV Tower Beijing * Koolhaas' carbonistas

... maximum China. CCTV carbon story. An instant icon ...?!

http://www.bbzine.com/3lue3eams/bluebeams.html

China Central Television headquarters tower estimated cost $800 million most expensive building cantilever overhang centerless mass gravity defying bridge leaning towers illusion of instability skyscraper loop continuous tube counterweight safety entropic retreat structural fatique acute chronic collapse dramatic shear gradual decline leaning tower of Pisa Beijing CBD major earthquake zone seismic force topples low carbon footprint zero emission sustainable neutral green leed catastrophic failure apocalyptic collapse unprecedented smart design hutong historic preservation world resources Chinese pyramid waste astronomical price tag prestige 2008 Beijing Olympics ma qinyun metabolist metaforms mega-tube dia-grid radical symbol architects Office of Metropolitan Architecture avantgarde structural engineers Cecil Balmond Ove Arup smog-TV air pollution TV [*]

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[pinewood189]

@Gaobdgao if any of that crap showed up in china they just teamen square their punk asses, dirt bag///

[shanizone009]

china truly Rocks



[Gaobdgao]

glad the chinese government didn't blame the fire on taliban...

[pindacostaole]

nice work

you and Rem