...and each time I see it, I can hear the music from the Godzilla cartoon in my head. It really is a monster - and an amazing feat of engineering. The two towers of China Central TV's new HQ lean inward toward one another, and will be joined by an L-shaped segment at the top. For me it occupies a creative space somewhere between shocking, horrible, novel and incredibly impressive.
When complete, it should look something like this. At this point in time, however, being flanked on one side by doomed 1960s Beijing apartment blocks, it has a violent aspect - like some long-buried beast awakened and angry.
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