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More CCTV Building Project Photos
Photos of the continuing project. (click for bigger pic) CCTV Bldg. fm. under the Guanghua Lu flyover: April 23, 2010 - 9:52 AM South face of TVCC: April 23, 2010 - 9:56 AM CCTV Bldg. and ducts: April...
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A Few More of the CCTV Project (color)
Here are some photos of the CCTV in color, all taken in the late afternoon/early evening, April 23, 2010 Panes and reflections: April 23, 2010, 5:28 PM Panes and reflections (detail) CCTV near sunset:...
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Google, Facebook, VPNs and Moving
I have just finished reading Googled by Ken Auletta, and I followed it up with James Fallows’ Atlantic Monthly piece, How to Save the News. A lot of good reading here, as well as a much deeper...
View ArticleAlways More Rumors
The CCTV Building project has been rife with rumors since before the first hole was dug, and the latest one (via niubi at Twitter) was spotted on Weibao, a Chinese microblogging service. The rough...
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Morning @ Guomao
Below are a few shots from this morning at Guomao, where the Dongsanhuan (East Third Ring Road) and Jianguomen Dajie entwine. It was another lovely, steamy, smoggy, summer morning in the capital city....
View ArticleBook Launch: Koolhaas in Beijing
In Amsterdam this past Monday evening, September 27th, there was a book launch of Koolhaas in Beijing, by Edzard Mik, the fifth book in a series of essays commissioned by Fonds BKVB / Netherlands...
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Light in October
I had written a long blog entry to go with these photos, explaining the National Holiday air quality issue, but I lost it. It happens. Though I’m not one who usually lets things go, there’s not much I...
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Lighting Up the CCTV HQ Building
It has been awhile since I’ve blogged, though not because I’ve not wanted to. I just haven’t wanted too enough. Inertia is … addictive. The force that changed my direction was, as it has so often been,...
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Civilized Chaoyang 2011
Here’s a shot from late last week in Beijing when the air was somewhat clear, the man was somewhat short – though longer than the bed of his trike – and the Hyundai Elantra was max shiny. And the CCTV...
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Koolhaas, Bigness and Beijing
The Master of Bigness by Martin Filler in the May 2012 issue of The New York Review of Books is well worth a look for two good reasons. One is the publication itself, the NYRB, which is always worth a...
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