看過此帖，想起很久很久以前讀過台灣“流氓”作家李敖寫的一本書《中國性研究》。書中談到到世界各地古建築里反映的生殖器崇拜思想，說紀念碑就是崇拜男性生殖器的典型代表。想想看，好像是那麼回事。藝術家們把生殖器當藝術欣賞，我等俗人只是往“壞”了想，想笑。

中國央視新大樓的"大褲衩"設計一直有爭議 (ZT)

據報道，被北京百姓調侃為"大褲衩"的北京中央電視台新總部大樓，最近又"火"了一把。

不過，中國媒體說，這把火不是被違規點燃的煙花所燒着，而是被新央視大樓的荷蘭設計者哈庫斯"點燃的"。

據悉，設計師庫哈斯近日在其出版的新著中承認，他給中國央視設計的那個大樓，其實就是與13億中國人開的一個色情玩笑。

庫哈斯聲稱，央視那個"大褲衩"及其配樓確實具有色情的寓意--主樓是一位雙膝跪地的裸女，屁股對着觀眾，配樓則作陽具狀。

這個消息一經報道，立即引起中國網民的強烈反應。不少人譴責庫哈斯居然和中國開了如此大的玩笑，等於羞辱了所有中國人。

有網民說，中國老百姓早就把央視大樓叫做"大褲衩"，現在庫哈斯終於說了實話。

有評論質疑，無法想象央視的領導和明星們今後如何天天在"陽具"或跪伏的"裸女屁股"里辦公？央視名記和名編們如何在一個充滿原始欲望的建築里去完成"主旋律"的神聖使命。

不過，也有中國網民認為此事不應當大驚小怪，畢竟"生殖崇拜"古已有之，並不色情，甚至認為庫哈斯的設計體現了中西文化的交流融合。

英文《中國日報》引述知名建築設計師和藝術家艾未未說，有關說法才是荒誕的笑話，部分原因是由於不理解建築，以及不屑了解真相的媒體造成的。

艾未未表示，他們常討論庫哈斯設計的哲學理念，但是，"我敢肯定，簡單模仿生殖器並非來自他的靈感"。

有評論說，央視大樓不過是一個單位的建築，"千萬別跟國家形象、民族大義扯起來"，那樣的玩笑，才真的太沉重。

Rem Koolhaas and CCTV architecture porn
Posted by Joel Martinsen, August 20, 2009 6:54 PM


Tab and slot**The new CCTV headquarters complex is an unending source of delight for China's netizens. Although the unique shape of the overhanging CCTV building presents an obstacle to standard phallic skyscraper jokes, clever internet users have found no shortage of low-brow jabs at Beijing's most controversial new landmark.

Last November, online forums were abuzz with jokes about the building's resemblance to a figure seated on a toilet. People called it the "Big Underpants" (大褲衩) and joked that one of the proposed nicknames, "Knowledge Window" (智窗, zhichuang) should really be the sound-alike "hemorrhoids" (痔瘡). The complex's tendency to burst into flames has made it even bigger target for humor.


Content coverYet it turns out that dick jokes may not be a lost cause after all. It turns out that taken together with the burnt husk of the TVCC annex, the CCTV complex resembles a pair of male and female genitalia. So that's worth a few weeks of fun, right?

There's more: it turns out that while Chinese audiences have been spending the last five years watching construction proceed on this massive erection of glass and steel, completely innocent as to its filthy connotations, architect Rem Koolhaas may have been aware of the resemblance all along, and he might have even done it on purpose.

From today's iZaobao:

An old joke about the new CCTV tower has found renewed interest. A news item on the Sing-Tao website said that images in the book Content, published by CCTV architect Rem Koolhaas, compared the building to male and female genitalia.

iZaobao helpfully links to a gallery of illustrations from Content, a flashy, trippy look at various Koolhaas projects that was published in 2003. The CCTV building, which was featured on the cover (pictured), also appeared inside in a gallery of architecture porn: "Architecture like you've never seen it" and "Models that make you wet" read the captions, and there's an insertion shot of the TVCC annex building.


Headquarters and hindquarters
The annexIt's excellent fodder for netizen snark, particularly as one favorite online nickname for CCTV is "CCAV," implying that China's state broadcaster is as tawdry and vulgar as the adult video industry.

Content has been around since 2003. The page scans were posted at the Chinese-language Art 218 BBS in 2004. So why has it taken so long for netizens to become aware of them? And why now?

The catalyst for the present controversy turns out to be an outspoken critic of Koolhaas and the CCTV project. Xiao Mo, a professor of architecture who is retired from Tsinghua University, has criticized the CCTV building and other vanity projects by superstar international architects in print, on the web, and to the global media. In an interview last year, he told NPR, "There is a bird's egg in the South, a bird's nest in the North, a bird's tree in the East, and a bird's cage in the West. They turned our beautiful Beijing into the world's bird capital."


Xiao MoIn June, Xiao posted an additional critique to the Tecn academic web portal (Tecn was closed shortly afterward, but the essay has been widely reposted and is currently available on the Architecture BBS) in which he pulled together rumors of the intended "genital worship" aspects of Koolhaas's design with a few page scans from Content magazine. His entertaining blog post was picked up by the mainstream media, which quoted a few choice lines, crediting them to "an architecture industry insider."

Here's a translation of Xiao's piece. He included a few page images from Content but placed yellow dots over the sensitive bits. In the interest of fidelity to the original source, we've taken the liberty of incorporating uncensored images from the Art 218 BBS.