The new CCTV Headquarters - the new main building of China's state broadcaster, China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing - has been completed after building began in 2004.
The Associated Press (AP) reported this past week that the building of 54 floors is now ready for occupation.
The building with its radical design in the form of a slightly obtuse cubical block as a three dimensional standing structure is helping to redefine the Beijing central business district's landscape as China grows in its image as a world superpower.
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The interesting skyscraper has of course led to a lot of questions - like what it is exactly, whether it should like like that and why it looks like that. It could be that that "asking of questions" is what one of the intangible symbolic attributes of the bold building is and what CCTV wants to convey. The asking of questions is of course one of the cornerstones of journalism after all.
