You are walking down a new road in Beijing’s CBD and you see this:
Then you see this:
What can these giant women mean?
Real estate advertising of course.
The banausic Fortune Plaza occupies a prime piece of property in Beijing’s much-vaunted CBD. Here are two views of the construction site.
The large flat area behind Fortune Plaza is supposed to be the site for Rem Koolhaas’ CCTV building, although there are all kinds of rumors floating around Beijing saying that the project is not going to be built. Two of the most common stories in recent weeks (both unverified) have been that Wen Jiabao nixed the project, and that CCTV didn’t want to pay the full fee to Koolhaas’ firm OMA. Note that although the area has been flattened, there is no sign of any work being done there.
Here is a rendering of the CCTV building.
