DOCSLIB.ORG

Is China Ready for a Cashless Future?

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Is China Ready for a Cashless Future? SCAN HERE How soon will China go fully cashless? ILLEGAL TENDER What Happened to China’s Bitcoin Boom CRACKING THE QR CODE We Try Beijing’s Staffless Stores Is China Ready for a Cashless Future? Follow us on WeChat Now Advertising Hotline 400 820 8428 城市漫步北京 英文版 4 月份 国内统一刊号: CN 11-5232/GO China Intercontinental Press ISSN 1672-8025 APRIL 2018 WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | APRIL 2018 | 1 主管单位 : 中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室 Supervised by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China 主办单位 : 五洲传播出版社 地址 : 北京西城月坛北街 26 号恒华国际商务中心南楼 11 层文化交流中心 邮编 100045 Published by China Intercontinental Press Address: 11th Floor South Building, HengHua linternational Business Center, 26 Yuetan North Street, Xicheng District, Beijing 100045, PRC http://www.cicc.org.cn 社长 President of China Intercontinental Press 陈陆军 Chen Lujun 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department 邓锦辉 Deng Jinhui 编辑 Editor 朱莉莉 Zhu Lili 发行 Circulation 李若琳 Li Ruolin Editor-in-Chief Noelle Mateer Deputy Editor Dominique Wong National Arts Editor Erica Martin Digital Content Editor Justine Lopez Designer Iris Wang Contributors Dominic Ngai, Mia Li, Gabriel Clermont, Kris Provoost, Edoardo Donati Fogliazza, Jonty Dixon, Alex Long, Sid Gulinck, Matt Bosson, Zheng Zhong, Holly Baer HK FOCUS MEDIA Shanghai (Head office) 上海和舟广告有限公司 上海市蒙自路 169 号智造局 2 号楼 305-306 室 邮政编码 : 200023 Room 305-306, Building 2, No.169 Mengzi Lu, Shanghai 200023 电话 : 021-8023 2199 传真 : 021-8023 2190 (From February 13) Beijing 广告代理 : 上海和舟广告有限公司 北京市东城区东直门外大街 48 号东方银座 C 座 9G 邮政编码 : 100027 48 Dongzhimenwai Dajie Oriental Kenzo (Ginza Mall), Building C, Room 9G, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100027 电话 : 010-8447 7002 传真 : 010-8447 6455 Guangzhou 上海和舟广告有限公司广州分公司 广州市越秀区麓苑路 42 号大院 2 号楼 610 房 邮政编码 : 510095 Room 610, No. 2 Building, Area 42, Lu Yuan Lu, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, PRC 510095 电话 : 020-8358 6125, 传真 : 020-8357 3859-800 Shenzhen 广告代理 : 上海和舟广告有限公司广州分公司 深圳市福田区彩田路星河世界大厦 C1-1303 C1-1303, Galaxy Century Building, Cai Tian Road, Futian District, Shenzhen 电话 : 0755-8623 3220, 传真 : 0755-8623 3219 Office Manager Vivid Zhu Sales Manager Emma Cao Sales Anita Wang, Betty Wang Marketing / Event Executive Ivy Wang National Operation CEO Leo Zhou Sales Project Director Henry Zeng Head of Communication Ned Kelly Financial Manager Laura Lu HR/Admin Director Penny Li National Digital Business Director Vickie Guo Digital Content Manager Bridget O'Donnell, Kane Zhu Digital Miller Yue, Amanda Bao, Orange Wang, Yu Sun, Elsa Yang, Jimmy Mi General enquiries (010) 8447 7002 Editorial (010) 8447 6455 [email protected] Events (010) 8447 6455 [email protected] Distribution/Subscription (010) 8447 7002 [email protected] Marketing (010) 8447 7603 [email protected] Advertising (010) 8447 7073 [email protected] 广告经营许可证 : 京海工商广字第 8069 号 法律顾问 : 大成律师事务所 魏君贤律师 Legal Advisor: Wei Junxian, Dacheng Law Firm 国际标准刊号 ISSN 1672-8025 国内统一刊号 CN 11-5232/GO 定价 : 25.00 元 邮发代号 : 2-930 部分非卖品 , 仅限赠阅 www.thatsmags.com 2 | APRIL 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM Editor’s Note APRIL 2018 My landlord likes to collect things – which is convenient for me, because I don't. So when he asked if I had any leftover change from my recent trip to South Korea, I was happy to give him my useless won. Then I looked into my wallet and noticed I had coins from Japan and Hong Kong – both trips I took several months ago – to give him too. Wouldn’t it be easier if all of this were digital? China just may be the first country to find out. In this month’s cover story (p. 40), Dominic Ngai asks the experts when the think China will become fully cashless (and uncovers some thorny privacy issues along the way); I catch up with those in China’s Bitcoin industry to see how increased legislation has impacted them; and Jonty Dixon and Edoardo Donati Fogliazza give you their run-down of Beijing’s new-fangled staffless (and, of course, cashless) stores. Keep your phone charged, readers. Elsewhere in the magazine, Dominique Wong speaks with Belgian architect Kris Provoost about the future of China’s buildings (p. 10), Erica Martin dives into the controversy surrounding Roseann Lake’s new book, Leftover in China (p. 30), and Jonty Dixon introduces us to Beijing’s latest brewery (p. 60). Until next month, Noelle Mateer Editor-in-Chief WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | APRIL 2018 | 3 6 CITY 7 ELEVEN’S A CROWD Foreigner limits strike Wudaokou bars 9 REAL TALK Young and old people on whether overseas travel is safe 15 THE WORD ON THE STREET …this month, a slang term about self-deprecation 7 16 LIFE & STYLE 19 SCENE & HEARD New openings include a design store and a co-working space 20 GREAT WALLS A boutique hotel with a focus on well-placed dividers 22 UP IN THE AIR 19 Smart bags for the smart traveler 26 ARTS 27 YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL James Blunt gets deep and meaningful with us 30 HEATING UP LEFTOVERS The literary controversy sur- rounding a new book about shengnü 38 LISTEN UP Three new albums to check 38 out this month 54 EAT & DRINK 57 MIFAN OR MAFAN? Hot takes on hot Beijing restaurants 58 SALAD SCANDAL Slick design replaces marketing stunts gone awry 60 HEAVENLY LITTLE CREATURES 57 A new (Aussie) craft beer joint 4 | APRIL 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM 40 CASH ME OUTSIDE What are the consequences of China’s increasingly cashless society? 10 A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE An architect documents China’s weird buildings 32 BACK TO THE ART Our guide to Art Beijing 2018 WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | APRIL 2018 | 5 CITY TOUCH THE SKY The end of an era for Beijing’s iconic buildings, p10 Generation Gap Driverless Cars Chinese Urban Dictionary p8 p9 p15 TALES OF THE CITY TALES WUDAOKOU BARS’ ‘FOREIGNER LIMIT’ SPARKS CONTROVERSY – AND MEMES by Dominique Wong and Jonty Dixon Two popular hangouts in Beijing’s student a SWAT team bundling out the back of a van, Meanwhile, up the road at perennial stu- area Wudaokou restricted the number of accompanied by the text: ‘When there are 11 dent hangout Lush, a noisy din permeates the foreigners allowed on their premises dur- foreigners in Pyro Pizza.’ Another featured a booze-infused air. A staff member tells me ing China’s Two Sessions last month. Photos crudely photoshopped Ocean’s Eleven poster that the infamous sign was taken down over a taken on March 10 showed notices posted dubbed: ‘Pyro’s Eleven: City ordinance pro- week ago. Another employee says that, rather on the front doors of Lush and Pyro Pizza hibited more than ten foreigners from visit- than impose a strict limit on numbers, the stating that the two businesses, which are ing a restaurant. They wanted to sneak in one local police simply warned the bar not to be- owned by the same people, would only allow more.’ come “too crowded” during the Two Sessions a maximum of 10 foreigners inside at any for “safety reasons.” given time. Sessions, the area outside Wudaokou subway Though the Wudaokou measures were The notices said the policy would be in is bustlingOn March with 20, students,the final day though of the a beefed-upTwo effect through March 22 – roughly the same security presence is noticeable. on foreigners in recent memory, increased time as the Two Sessions, a series of politi- securitythe first-ever measures reported during occurrence large political of a limit cal meetings. Writing scrawled across Lush’s It’s a Tuesday evening and the restaurant is gatherings in the capital are nothing new, notice also stated that the number of people barelyThere half-full. is no flyer The on waitperson Pyro Pizza’s is confused. front door. with nightlife being a common target. Chao, allowed inside the restaurant was 70 total. an employee of a Beijing nightclub currently Managers from the two establishment de- hasn’t heard anything about a ban. “Besides,” undergoing renovation, tells us that during clined to speak on the record to That’s, how- sheIt’s hersays, first pointing night workingto a party at of Pyro at least and ashe the Two Sessions, several clubs’ “front doors ever, according to news blog SupChina.com, dozen people – ostensibly foreigners – taking are closed, but the back doors are open. It’s who spoke with one of the owners, the meas- up three tables across one side of the room. common for these kinds of places of enter- ure was intended to protect international stu- “Look at them all.” tainment [during political events].” And last dents from being the target of attacks. A fair-haired man sitting by himself tells us fall, a number of bars were shut down during Both restaurants are popular among for- he is in Beijing on business and was unaware the 19th National Congress of the Communist eigners, particularly international students of the ban. “I only heard about it just now Party. living in the neighborhood, and the news when my friend called me on the phone to But for now, looking around Lush, it seems spread quickly online among expats, who warn me about it,” the Welsh native says. like business as usual. greeted the stipulations with a mixture of be- The warning may have been unwarranted, musement and worry. yet outside Pyro we overhear people chatting The memes soon followed. One depicted about the supposed foreigner limit. WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | APRIL 2018 | 7 THE BUZZ GENERATION GAP Do you think it’s safe for Chinese nationals to study abroad, considering recent news about students going missing in the UK? ZHANG, 24 SNOW PROBLEM “I believe we cannot reason in terms of whether – snowfall of the season. foreign countries are safe or not because danger is A woman takes a selfie during the first – and only photo by Zheng Zhong everywhere, and will always be present.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Finding Structural Solutions by Connecting Towers
    ctbuh.org/papers Title: Finding Structural Solutions by Connecting Towers Authors: Andrew Luong, Director, Arup Michael Kwok, Director, Arup Subjects: Architectural/Design Structural Engineering Keywords: Cost Skybridges Publication Date: 2012 Original Publication: CTBUH Journal, 2012 Issue III Paper Type: 1. Book chapter/Part chapter 2. Journal paper 3. Conference proceeding 4. Unpublished conference paper 5. Magazine article 6. Unpublished © Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat / Andrew Luong; Michael Kwok Research: China’s Unique Linked Towers Finding Structural Solutions by Connecting Towers A study of a number of linked high-rise towers in China finds designs anchored by innovative, unimposing structural solutions, which address issues of costs and buildability. More than simply making a dramatic visual statement, the links play an integral role in the buildings’ functions. Linked towers are still a rarity in the design of solving a number of problems and offering skyscrapers. Perhaps the most famous is the new opportunities in the design and usage of Andrew Luong Michael Kwok Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, but the buildings including: the linkage in the Petronas served as more Authors than just an architectural gesture. Structurally providing better masterplanning and Andrew Luong, Director Michael Kwok, Director there is little purpose to the skybridge, massing relationship in the site and to the Arup although the link it is an integral part of the neighboring architecture; 39/F–41/F Huaihai Plaza fire evacuation strategy and allows facilities to effective use of a limited and constrained 1045 Huaihai Road Shanghai 200031 be shared between the two towers over those site; China several levels, in addition to offering an increasing floor plate size; t: +86 21 6126 2888 observation deck, a popular attraction.
    [Show full text]
  • To Read the Beijinger July/August 2017 Issue Online Now!
    CHINESE COLD DISHES KO TAO LIAM GALLAGHER HANOI 2017/07-08 HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO HOUSE HUNTING IN BEIJING 1 JUL/AUG 2017 图书在版编目（ＣＩＰ）数据 艺术北京 : 英文 / 《北京人系列丛书》编委会编著 旗下出版物 . -- 昆明 : 云南科技出版社, 2017.3 （北京人系列丛书） ISBN 978-7-5587-0464-2 Ⅰ. ①艺… Ⅱ. ①北… Ⅲ. ①北京－概况－英文 Ⅳ. ①K921 中国版本图书馆CIP数据核字(2017)第056249号 责任编辑：吴 琼 封面设计：Xixi 责任印刷：翟 苑 责任校对：叶水金 张彦艳 Since 2001 | 2001年创刊 thebeijinger.com A Publication of 广告代理: 北京爱见达广告有限公司 地址: 北京市朝阳区关东店北街核桃园30号 孚兴写字楼C座5层 Since 2006 | 2006年创刊 邮政编码: 100020 Beijing-kids.com 电话: 5779 8877 Advertising Hotline/广告热线: 5941 0368 /69 /72 /77 /78 /79 The Beijinger Managing Editor Margaux Schreurs Digital Content Managing Editor Tom Arnstein Editors Kyle Mullin, Tracy Wang Contributors Jeremiah Jenne, Andrew Killeen, Robynne Tindall True Run Media Founder & CEO Michael Wester Owner & Co-Founder Toni Ma Art Director Susu Luo Designer Xi Xi Production Manager Joey Guo Content Marketing Director Nimo Wanjau Head of Marketing & Communications Lareina Yang Events & Brand Manager Mu Yu Marketing Team Sharon Shang, Helen Liu, Nate Ren Head of HR & Admin Tobal Loyola Finance Manager Judy Zhao Accountant Vicky Cui Since 2012 | 2012年创刊 HR & Admin Officer Cao Zheng Jingkids.com Digital Development Director Alexandre Froger IT Support Specialist Yan Wen Photographer Uni You Sales Director Sheena Hu Account Managers Winter Liu, Wilson Barrie, Olesya Sedysheva, Renee Hu, Veronica Wu Sales Supporting Manager Gladys Tang Sales Coordinator Serena Du General inquiries: 5779 8877 Editorial inquiries: [email protected] Event
    [Show full text]
  • WARCHITECTURE Hinted at the Day Before
    IIAS_NL#39 09-12-2005 17:03 Pagina 20 > Rem Koolhaas IIAS annual lecture SKYSCRAPERS AND SLEDGEHAMMERS The 10th IIAS annual lecture was delivered in Amsterdam on 17 November by world-famous Dutch architect and Harvard professor ...THE DAY AFTER Rem Koolhaas. Co-founder and partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and initiator of AMO, its think-tank/mirror Zheng Shiling from Shanghai, Xing Ruan from Sydney and Anne- image, Koolhaas’ projects include de Kunsthal in Rotterdam, Guggenheim Las Vegas, a Prada boutique in Soho, Casa da Musica in Marie Broudehoux from Quebec City were Koolhaas’ discussants Porto and most spectacularly, the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing. His writings range from his Delirious New York, a retroactive following the lecture. To give our guests a chance to meet their manifesto (1978) to his massive 1,500 page S,M,L,XL (1995), several projects supervised at Harvard including Great Leap Forward Dutch and Flemish brothers in arms, IIAS organized a meeting (2002) and Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2002) to his most recent volume between a book and a magazine, Content at the Netherlands Architectural Institute in Rotterdam the fol- (2005). On these pages of the IIAS newsletter, itself a strange animal between an academic journal and newspaper, we explore why lowing day. Bearing the title (Per)forming Culture; Architecture and Koolhaas in his last book invites us to Go East; why he has a long-time fascination with the Asian city; why the Metabolists have Life in the Chinese Megalopolis, specialists of contemporary Chi- always intrigued him; why OMA has developed an interest in preserving ancient Beijing; and, perhaps most importantly, why he nese urban change – including scholars of architectural theory, thinks architecture is so closely connected to ideology.
    [Show full text]
  • China's Master Planning System in Transition Case Study on Beijing
    Gu Chaolin, Yuan Xiaohui and Guo Jing, China’s master planning system in transition: case study of Beijing, 46th ISOCARP Congress 2010 China’s master planning system in transition Case study on Beijing Gu Chaolin Yuan Xiaohui Guo Jing 1. Introduction Ever since China reformed and opened up to the world in 1978, there were immense changes taken place in structure and system framework of society, economy and space. The service industry has entered the fast development track and the economic structure is speedily adjusting. Millions of farmers left their land to look for new development. In this period, industrialization and urbanization kept pushing forward. Thus, the conflicts between rural and urban development deteriorated and social migration is increasing. The largest dualistic economy entity in the world is changing. During this period, resource consumption increases rapidly in volume and environmental pressure continues to increase. In fact, China’s urban planning system play an important role for its development and growth as well as resource and environmental problems. This paper will discuss the great changes of the China’s urban planning system and have a Beijing case study during that time. In general, Urban planning in China first 30 years used the former Soviet Union urban planning model according to the planned economy system. Urban planning is implementation in space of the state economic development plans. The second 30 years exploring national conditions of the socialist market economic system in urban planning. Traditional urban planning system is broken and the new planning system also can not copy urban planning system from the European market economy countries.
    [Show full text]
  • Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: an Ethnography of Design
    The University of Manchester Research Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: An Ethnography of Design Link to publication record in Manchester Research Explorer Citation for published version (APA): Yaneva, A. (2009). Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: An Ethnography of Design. (1st ed.) 010 Publlishers. http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Made_by_the_Office_for_Metropolitan_Arch.html?id=Z4okIn5RvHYChttp:// www.010.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=714 Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on Manchester Research Explorer is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Proof version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the Research Explorer are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Takedown policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please refer to the University of Manchester’s Takedown Procedures [http://man.ac.uk/04Y6Bo] or contact [email protected] providing relevant details, so we can investigate your claim. Download date:29. Sep. 2021 Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: An Ethnography of Design 010 Publishers Rotterdam 2009 Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: An Ethnography of Design Albena Yaneva For Bruno Latour Acknowledgements 5 I would like to thank my publisher for encouraging me to systematically explore the large pile of interviews and ethnographic materials collected during my participant observation in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam (oma) in the period 2002-4.
    [Show full text]
  • Hot Pot Taste Test Paul French Vancouver Nocturnes
    HOT POT TASTE TEST PAUL FRENCH VANCOUVER NOCTURNES 2018/03- 04 1 MAR/APR 2018 为您打造 A Publication of HOT POT TASTE TEST PAUL FRENCH VANCOUVER NOCTURNES 出版发行: 云南出版集团 云南科技出版社有限责任公司 地址: 云南省昆明市环城西路609号, 云南新闻出版大楼2306室 责任编辑: 欧阳鹏, 张磊 书号: 978-7-900747-63-1 Since 2001 | 2001年创始 thebeijinger.com A Publication of 广告代理: 北京爱见达广告有限公司 地址: 北京市朝阳区关东店北街核桃园30号 孚兴写字楼C座5层, 100020 Advertising Hotline/广告热线: 5941 0368, [email protected] Since 2006 | 2006年创始 Beijing-kids.com Managing Editor Tom Arnstein Editors Kyle Mullin, Tracy Wang Contributors Jeremiah Jenne, Andrew Killeen, Robynne Tindall, Will Griffith, Tautvile Daugelaite, Andrew Little 国际教育 · 家庭生活 · 社区活动 True Run Media Founder & CEO Michael Wester 国际学校如何帮助 有特殊需要的儿童 How MSB and BSB Shunyi Owner & Co-Founder Toni Ma Give Extra Help to Their Students Art Director Susu Luo 为什么我们很少听说 “学习障碍”？ Designer Vila Wu Learning Difficulties: The Elephant in Production Manager Joey Guo Chinese Classrooms Content Marketing Manager Robynne Tindall Marketing Director Lareina Yang Events & Brand Manager Mu Yu Marketing Team Helen Liu, Cindy Zhang, Echo Wang 封面故事 HR Manager Tobal Loyola 我们其实都一样 We Are Different, We Are the Same 2016年11月刊 1 HR & Admin Officer Cao Zheng Finance & Admin Manager Judy Zhao Since 2012 | 2012年创始 Jingkids.com Accountants Vicky Cui, Susan Zhou Digital Development Director Alexandre Froger IT Support Specialist Yan Wen Photographer Uni You Sales Director Sheena Hu Account Managers Winter Liu, Wilson Barrie, Olesya Sedysheva, 国际教育·家庭生活·都市资讯 2018.04 Veronica Wu, Sharon Shang, Fangfang Wang Sales Supporting
    [Show full text]
  • Issn 1672-8025
    Follow us on WeChat Now Advertising Hotline 400 820 8428 城市漫步北京 英文版 03 月份 国内统一刊号: CN 11-5232/GO China Intercontinental Press ISSN 1672-8025 MARCH 2015 主管单位 ：中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室 Supervised by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China 主办单位 ：五洲传播出版社 地址 ：北京市海淀区北三环中路31 号生产力大楼 B 座 602 邮编 100088 B-602 Shengchanli Building, No. 31 Beisanhuan Zhonglu, Haidian District, Beijing 100088, PRC http://www.cicc.org.cn 社长 President of China Intercontinental Press 李红杰 Li Hongjie 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department 邓锦辉 Deng Jinhui 编辑 Editor 刘扬 Liu Yang 发行 / 市场 Distribution / Marketing 黄静，李若琳 Huang Jing, Li Ruolin Editor-in-Chief Stephen George Senior Editors Oscar Holland, Will Philipps, Karoline Kan, Marianna Cerini Assistant Editor Vivid Zhu Designers Tin Wu, Qian Nan Yang Staff Photographer Noemi Cassanelli Contributors Andrew Chin, Stan Aron, Alex Taggart, Mia Li, Trevor Marshallsea, Nikolai Blackie Urbanatomy Media Shanghai (Head office) 上海和舟广告有限公司 上海市蒙自路 169 号智造局 2 号楼 305-306 室 邮政编码 : 200023 Room 305-306, Building 2, No.169 Mengzi Lu, Shanghai 200023 电话 : 021-8023 2199 传真 : 021-8023 2190 (From February 13) Beijing 广告代理 : 上海和舟广告有限公司 北京市东城区东直门外大街 48 号东方银座 C 座 9G 邮政编码 : 100027 48 Dongzhimenwai Dajie Oriental Kenzo (Ginza Mall) Building C Room 9G, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100027 电话 : 010-8447 7002 传真 : 010-8447 6455 Guangzhou 上海和舟广告有限公司广州分公司 广州市越秀区麓苑路 42 号大院 2 号楼 610 房 邮政编码 : 510095 Room 610, No. 2 Building, Area 42, Lu Yuan Lu, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, PRC 510095 电话 : 020-8358 6125, 传真 : 020-8357 3859-800 Shenzhen
    [Show full text]
  • The Operative Criticism of Rem Koolhaas
    380 Re.Building The Operative Criticism of Rem Koolhaas FRANCES HSU Georgia Institute of Technology together set the parameters for criticality today. With these ongoing efforts, Koolhaas situates capitalism as today’s new and sometimes terrifying sublime. The relationship between the historian and the architect began in Manhattan at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies. It is personal, anecdotal, and historical, with evidence of subjects, citations, and images shared by their writings. Tafuri, who shaped the paradigm of criticality operating today, formulated his position by combining terms from art, language, and psychology. Koolhaas precisely and purposefully relied on those terms used by Tafuri to create Figure 1: From SMLXL, pp. 432-433 and implement retroaction—an ironic refutation of operative criticism negating Tafuri’s position that modern architecture could not be critical due to INTRODUCTION economic conditions for the production of buildings. The evolution of criticality in the work of Rem Koolhaas has in fact been precisely and strategically Koolhaas/OMA can be fruitfully viewed in relation engaged in an ongoing historical and ideological to Manfredo Tafuri’s article “Toward a Critique of project since the seventies. His introduction to the Architectural Ideology” (1969). This piece, revised discourse on architecture’s taste for power occurred and expanded in Architecture and Utopia, Design during his studies at Cornell University, when he and Capitalist Development speaks to the possibility “became friends” with Michel Foucault.1 A concern of an operative criticism that engages the ideology of with the ideological function of architecture rests at capitalism. Tafuri’s stated concerns with techniques the foundation of projects spanning from Exodus, of programming, analysis of defined economic or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture (1972) sectors, and ideologies of consumption are shared and Study for the Renovation of a Panopticon Prison by Koolhaas’s work.
    [Show full text]
  • CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China: Thought About the Buildability of the Primary Structural Elements and Connections
    Introduction CCTV Headquarters, China Central Television (CCTV) had been expanding greatly, in competition with major international television and news service providers, and early in Beijing, China: 2002 it organised an international design competition for a new headquarters. This was won by the team of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) and Arup. Building the structure The team subsequently allied with the East China Design Institute (ECADI) to act as the essential local design institute for both architecture and engineering. The first Arup Journal article1 outlined the design Chris Carroll Craig Gibbons Goman Ho Michael Kwok collaboration process. Richard Lawson Alexis Lee Ronald Li Andrew Luong The unusual brief, in television terms, was for all the functions of production, management, and Rory McGowan Chas Pope administration to be contained on the chosen site in the new Beijing Central Business District, but not necessarily in one building. In its architectural response, however, OMA decided that by doing just this, it should be possible to break down the “ghettoes” that tend to form in a complex and compartmentalised process like making television programmes, and create a building whose layout in three dimensions would force all those involved to mix and produce a better end-product more economically and efficiently (Fig 1). The winning design for the 473 000m2, 234m tall CCTV building thus combines administration and offices, news and broadcasting, programme production, and services – the entire process of Chinese television – in a single loop of interconnected activities (Fig 2) around the four elements of the building: the nine-storey “Base”, the two leaning Towers that slope at 6° in two directions, and the 9-13 storey “Overhang”, suspended 36 storeys in the air.
    [Show full text]
  • Koolhaas's CCTV Building Fits Beijing As City of the Future
    Koolhaas’s CCTV Building Fits Beijing as City of the Future - Review - NYTimes.com 8/2/11 12:17 PM HOME PAGE TODAY'S PAPER VIDEO MOST POPULAR TIMES TOPICS Subscribe: Digital / Home Delivery Welcome, margaretsegalla Log Out Help Search All NYTimes.com Art & Design WORLD U.S. N.Y. / REGION BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE HEALTH SPORTS OPINION ARTS STYLE TRAVEL JOBS REAL ESTATE AUTOS ART & DESIGN BOOKS DANCE MOVIES MUSIC TELEVISION THEATER VIDEO GAMES ARCHITECTURE REVIEW Log in to see what your friends Log In With Facebook Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing are sharing on nytimes.com. Privacy Policy | What’s This? What’s Popular Now The Tea Party’s Putting an War on America Antebellum Myth About Slave Families to Rest Philippe Ruault The CCTV building in Beijing, the headquarters of China Central Television designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, has a contorted form that frames an enormous void at its center. By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF Published: July 11, 2011 BEIJING — Aside from the new World Trade Center, it’s hard to RECOMMEND think of a more contentious architectural project in the last few TWITTER Advertise on NYTimes.com years than the CCTV building, the headquarters of China Central COMMENTS Television here. (162) TicketWatch: Theater Offers by E-Mail E-MAIL Sign up for ticket offers from Broadway shows and other advertisers. After Rem Koolhaas, the project’s PRINT [email protected] architect — along with his former Change E-mail Address | Privacy Policy Multimedia SINGLE PAGE Beijing partner, Ole Scheeren — REPRINTS unveiled the design in 2003 he was pilloried by Western journalists for SHARE MOST E-MAILED RECOMMENDED FOR YOU glorifying a propaganda organ of the articles in the past Chinese government.
    [Show full text]
  • Case Study: CCTV Building - Headquarters & Cultural Center
    ctbuh.org/papers Title: Case Study: CCTV Building - Headquarters & Cultural Center Authors: Chris Carroll, Arup Craig Gibbons, Arup Goman Wai-Ming Ho, Arup Michael Kwok, Arup Paul Cross, Arup Xiaonian Duan, Arup Alexis Lee, Arup Ronald Li, Arup Andrew Luong, Arup Rory McGowan, Arup Chas Pope, Arup Subjects: Architectural/Design Building Case Study Structural Engineering Keywords: Construction Design Process Form Foundation Performance Based Design Structure Publication Date: 2008 Original Publication: CTBUH Journal, 2008 Issue III Paper Type: 1. Book chapter/Part chapter 2. Journal paper 3. Conference proceeding 4. Unpublished conference paper 5. Magazine article 6. Unpublished © Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat / Chris Carroll; Craig Gibbons; Goman Wai-Ming Ho; Michael Kwok; Paul Cross; Xiaonian Duan; Alexis Lee; Ronald Li; Andrew Luong; Rory McGowan; Chas Pope Case Study: CCTV Building - Headquarters & Cultural Center Authors Chris Carroll, Paul Cross, Xiaonian Duan, Craig Gibbons, Goman Ho, Michael Kwok, Richard Lawson, Alexis Lee, Ronald Li, Andrew Luong, Rory McGowan, Chas Pope Arup Arup is a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants providing a diverse range of professional services to clients around the world. The firm has over 10 000 staff working in more than 90 offices in 37 countries. Arup has three main global business areas – buildings, infrastructure and consulting – although their multi-disciplinary approach means that any given project may involve people from any or all of the sectors or regions in which they operate. Arup has extensive experience in the field of tall buildings, having provided core multidisciplinary Figure 1. Architect’s impression of the building design services for such notable projects as 30 St.
    [Show full text]
  • SHIFTING TIDES: That's Guangzhou CN 11-5234/GO 05月份
    China Intercontinental Press Advertising Hotline 城市漫步珠 国内统一刊号: 三角英文版 SHIFTING TIDES: that's guangzhou CN 11-5234/GO 05月份 Follow Us on WeChat Now CHINA’S BOAT PEOPLE MAY 2018 that's shenzhen PLOT AN UNCERTAIN COURSE British National Curriculum Chinese Traditional Culture STEAM Courses Enroll before 31 May to take advantage of a 20% discount on tuition fee for the academic year 2018-2019! CIS GUANGZHOU SPRING MUSIC CONCERT A COLLECTION OF ICONIC CANADIAN MUSIC WOAH, Featuring all students, CANADA!! from Pre-K to G12 THURSDAY 17th MAY 2018 2pm | CIS THEATRE, NEW CAMPUS!! Hosted by Mr Planert We welcome all the CIS families and community to this very special musical showpiece at our brand new campus in Merchant Hill. that’s PRD 《城市漫步》珠江三角洲 英文月刊 WIN WIN WIN Editor's Note MAY 2018 For this month’s cover story, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to introduce Hourly updates on news, current affairs 主管单位 : 中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室 Supervised by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China you to the neighbors you didn’t know you had: the shuishangren, or and general weirdness from around 主办单位 : 五洲传播出版社 ‘people on the water’ in English. Shanghai and China. 地址 : 北京西城月坛北街 26 号恒华国际商务中心南楼 11 层文化交流中心 More commonly – and controversially – known as Tanka people, FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA 11th Floor South Building, Henghua lnternational Business Center, 26 Yuetan North Street, Xicheng District, Beijing populations of shuishangren are found in various parts of the Pearl http://www.cicc.org.cn facebook.com/thatsonline 社长 President: 陈陆军 Chen Lujun River Delta (Hong Kong, Dongguan and Foshan, to name a few), and on 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department: 付平 Fu Ping pages 34-43, we offer an insight into the lives of these river- and sea- We’re giving away tickets to twitter.com/thatsonline 编辑 Editor: 朱莉莉 Zhu Lili 发行 Circulation: 李若琳 Li Ruolin faring folks while also exploring the modern-day challenges facing their centuries-old communities.
    [Show full text]