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Want a Rem in your room? Beijing's CCTV tower transformed into a wardrobe

Want a Rem in your room? Beijing's CCTV tower transformed into a wardrobe

At the recent Design Miami fest, artist Naihan Li exhibited her work-of-art wardrobe, which is helpfully—or confusingly—titled I AM A MONUMENT. (Apologies, and a tip of the chapeau, to Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour.) The monument in question is, of course, Rem KoolhaasCCTV building.

But the homage isn’t limited to the exterior of the structure. Inside—the cabinet, if not the building—things get interesting.

The elaborate compartments and cupboards contained in the rosewood armoire would seem to take inspiration from programmatic diagrams of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s Beijing skyscraper. The artist explained her thinking: “The CCTV tower, shaped like a loop of video in endless production, has been turned into a wardrobe, where the ritual of dressing and undressing can also be said to be an endless loop.”


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