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Tag Archives: CCTV
Entitling Historical Concepts
Most architectural firms have names listing one or more partners, McKim Mead & White being a chief example familiar to classicists. In recent times some firms have chosen names seemingly designed to impress you with their creativity, such as SHoP … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Andrew Cogar, Atlanta, Bulfinch Awards, CCTV, David Andreozzi, Historical Concepts, ICAA, Rem Koolhaas, Shutze Awards
10 Comments
China bans novel archivirus
The People’s Republic of China, taking time off from other matters, has issued a decree banning copies of foreign design in its architecture. The decree, as described in the BBC’s “China ‘copycat’ buildings: Government clamps down on foreign imitations,” also … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged BBC, CCTV, China, Copycat Villages, Cultural Heritage, Modern Architecture
4 Comments
Is Wuhan China’s Chicago?
Wuhan, the Chinese city where the Wuhan virus originated, is sometimes called “The Chicago of China” for its size (pop. 11.8 million), its central location, its setting on the Yangtze River and its historic buildings and its modern architecture. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged CCTV, CGTN, Chicago, China, Corbusier, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Paris, Plan Voisin, Rem Koolhaas, Wuhan
7 Comments
Romance and the style wars
On Sunday I saw the 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank and, in its depiction of Anne’s friendship with the son of another family hiding with the Franks in the attic of a Dutch row house in Nazi-occupied Holland, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged #MeToo, Amsterdam, CCTV, Diary of Anne Frank, Mies van der Rohe, Palladio, Rape, Rem Koolhaas, Romance, Seagram Building, Social Mores, World War II
5 Comments
Xi a Chinese visionary?
Far be it from me to agree with the head of the Chinese Communist Party on anything, but please excuse me for agreeing with Xi Jinping on one thing. Speaking to a literary symposium last week, the Chinese president said, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Humor, Other countries
Tagged art, CCTV, China, Culture, Genocide, People's Daily, Xi Jinping
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Zaha “Ha Ha” Hadid’s thing
Even I don’t have the London City Halls to photomontage the People’s Daily into Qatar’s proposed World Cup Stadium, designed by Zaha Hadid. I refer, of course, firstly to Norman Foster’s London City Hall, called the “glass gonad” by London … Continue reading
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