Thursday, November 13, 2008

The China Blog - TIME.com Naming the CCTV Tower (or Why ³Big Underpants=?ISO-8859-1?B?siA=?=is Better Than ³Hemorrhoids=?ISO-8859-1?B?sg==?=)


" The people at China Central Television are apparently not so happy with
the public's nickname for their gleaming new headquarters. The building,
which was designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, consists of two
slanting towers that are joined by sections on the ground and two horizontal
sections at the top to form a continuous loop. It is an architectural and
engineering marvel. To the people of Beijing it is simply, ³Big Underpants.²

Ha, ha, ha! At least it's easy to find!

Read full article at:
http://china.blogs.time.com/2008/11/13/naming-the-cctv-tower-or-why-big-unde
rpants-is-better-than-hemorrhoids/

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