Did Rem Koolhaas Design the CCTV Tower to 'Humiliate the Chinese'?

Late last week, you’ll recall that we, followed by everyone else on the planet, talked about David Pierson‘s IKEA-in-China piece. Now we start out morning returning to the country with this bit of interesting found by way of Archinect. Story goes is that a book/magazine called Content was recently published in Beijing whose central thesis is that Rem KoolhaasCCTV Tower was created as “a sexual symbol” in order to “humiliate the Chinese.” We’ve all been familiar with the nickname the country gave Koolhaas’ massive structure, “the underpants,” but hadn’t know, until now, that there was any sort of serious hatred toward the building (outside of nearby residents being upset after receiving notice that they

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