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...house the spiffy Beijing Mandarin Oriental, was designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who intended to match the aesthetics of the adjacent China Central Television headquarters. Amidst the Olympics mania in 2004, the Chinese government hired Koolhaas’s firm to design a new headquarters for CCTV. The massive six-million-square-foot complex that resulted, which includes the Television Cultural Center, came to be known as “Zhichuang,” or “knowledge window.” With two leaning towers connected in mid-air, the complex’s design seeks...
...Under direct control of the autocratic Communist Party through the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, CCTV is the largest broadcaster in the country. With 16 national channels and over 10,000 employees, it reaches over one billion people in mainland China, with around a 30-percent airtime share. In a knowledge era, CCTV is at the core of the government’s control over the population...
...property market and encourage consumer spending. "They've done everything right so far and very fast," says one western diplomat in Beijing. "Often it's been bigger and faster than other countries like Germany, and they aren't afraid to advertise that fact in the papers and on CCTV...
...drawings, paintings and installations, have sold at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the same time, Banksy continues to create the street artwork he's famous for. The Westminster piece depicts a child in a red, hooded sweatshirt on a ladder painting the slogan "One Nation Under CCTV" in large letters, as a U.S.-style police officer with a camera and a dog stand nearby. CCTV is Britain's system of closed-circuit public surveillance cameras. Ironically, Banksy completed the work with an actual CCTV camera overhead. (See pictures of Banksy's secret art show...
...Westminster council first sought to remove Banksy's painting 'One nation under CCTV' on Newman street in central London on the grounds it was an unlicensed commercial. (See pictures of Banksy...