I feel obligated to comment just because I pass by that monstrosity every day. It's not obvious from the title, but this is primarily a piece on several of Beijing's new architectural showpieces, while trying to interleave China's "growth" and "changing landscape" into the commentary. Since I don't know too much about architecture, I can't say whether it's a good article or not, but I really didn't learn much from this.
I think the new CCTV building is great. That being said, I'm reminded of a comment I read ages ago. "Spend a day in China and you can write a book. Spend a few years and you can't think of a single thing to say."
