Name of building: Beijng Tianzi Hotel ("Tianzi" means Son of Heaven, or Emperor)
Location: eastern suburbs of Beijing
Height: 41.6m
Number of storeys: 10
The building consists of shapes of three gods in traditional Chinese culture, namely God of Happiness, God of Emolument, and God of Longevity.
In the Guinness World Records, it is the world's biggest "material" (meaning: copying the exact shape of something in real life) building.
True, it is big. The peach in the left hand of God of Longevity is a SUITE.
This building is little known among Beijing people, but it is widely known in the architecture circles. Why? Because few architects have ever imagined such a bad-taste building can REALLY be built.
Well, at least it's scary at nighttime.

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thats a funky building

haha nice to see somethin different :okay: i like it

LOL

i dont like it...

Horrible, and original, too.
Fifty-fifty

Nice chinese restraunt :lol:

That's crazy. There hats are the revolving restaurants!

This tackiness belongs in America in a strip mall sorrounded by giant billboards advertising the room rates!

Originality at its best! Monumental buildings indeed!! Any close ups of these...er...buildings??

yuck!

Fantastic!!

OMG! :eek: :sly:

I dont know what to say

I would like to see an entire city made of buildings like this! :) HOHO

insane.
i won't wanna stay in there. =.=

Aha, didn't imagine there could be favourable comments from you.
You know, on China's web forums, the ONLY voices are: bad taste, ridiculous, vulgar, tawdry, blasphemy against China's traditional culture, and architects' unconditional surrender to commercial wills.
We can perhaps draw a conclusion that most people of Chinese cultural background hate this building, and many people of different cultural backgrounds like it.
Originally posted by harkerb: Any close ups of these...er...buildings??
I've found and posted more pics of the building for you, the first an interior view, the second a back view, and the third a front view. Check my first thread.

like it............
weird but interesting............

It's disgusting :puke:

Different :crazy:

Weird!, ididn't like it.

I first saw photos of this hotel a few years ago and could not believe it was a real building. I like it. It is colorful, and, whether you like it or not, it is original.

:crazy: that's sick IMO.

fugly!

Well, us in America went through a phase like this as our country became a car culture.
The few that remain are classic landmarks. I like this.

Such bad taste.... :puke:

ugly !

Wow, very interesting design and something unique that can't be found anywhere else (except for maybe LasVegas in future!)...

Ewww, so gross hahaha

Need more shots of this strange hotel....

horrible

i dont know what think about this building ????????????????????????????

I would have never believed it. But seeing is believing. The contractors must have been banging their HEADS AGAINST THE WALL trying to figure out how to build this building.

Classy - Siamese Triplets

They should put this in the Discovery Channel!!!

Chinese versions of Larry Curly and Moe?

Reminds of the duck restaurant in Robert Venturi's "Learning from Las Vegas" ;)
I can't put it in words... it's architectural disaster but urbanism masterpiece!

You negative guys act like this building was built for some serious reason. It's a hotel! It's no different from seeing the Great Pyramid or the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas. It's just amusing to see regardless of how it looks. Like if you were a tourist, you'd be turned off disgusted when you see it. Yeah, right! You'd be taking pictures like everyone else.

actually I like it, in the age of globalization and copy-cats (taj mahal in dubai, pyramids and eifel tower in vegas etc..) I dont see any harm shouting out culture in a pop-age-primitive-over-the-top commercial way,
I mean having a starving kate moss spread on an entire building's facade is probably worse

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Your opinion and comparison are very dumb and childish, not liking such horrible building makes people negative? :|

Let's compare... If I took a picture of this as a tourist It would be to make me laugh even more later on....Not for is amazing engineering, beauty, quality or stunning design.. This is bad taste and poor quality... Period.


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You can't compare to these...


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http://images5.theimagehosting.com/paris2R.jpg (http://www.theimagehosting.com)

^^ actually how do you know its poor quality? and why are a minature pyramids, sphynx and eiffel tower not bad taste?

Euh...

A misunderstood concept of beauty...

^^ actually how do you know its poor quality? and why are a minature pyramids, sphynx and eiffel tower not bad taste?


By looking at it, you don't need to be a genius or be an expert on construction or materials, it looks cheap and tacky...


About the pyramid and tower, compared to that thing in quality, materials and design much, much better taste IMO... Happy now?

Yes it looks cheap indeed and pyramid & tower look brilliant.

But at least, this building reflects originality not power of money :)

Holy crap that scares the sh!t outta me... I'd hate to see it all lit up a night. *shudders*

haha really funny ... and fun

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Your opinion and comparison are very dumb and childish, not liking such horrible building makes people negative? :|

Let's compare... If I took a picture of this as a tourist It would be to make me laugh even more later on....Not for is amazing engineering, beauty, quality or stunning design.. This is bad taste and poor quality... Period.


http://s02.picshome.com/321/200510364209999.jpg


You can't compare to these...


http://images5.theimagehosting.com/luxor6.jpg (http://www.theimagehosting.com)


http://images5.theimagehosting.com/paris2R.jpg (http://www.theimagehosting.com)

:weirdo:

Childish? You're the one pouting over nothing.

Take a pill, dude! You need to get back on your meds... immediately! You take things too seriously. It's not around you so what do you care? There's the thought police in forums like these. Now there's the building police. I thought China was the police state.

I hear a lot people call Vegas "tacky" because of these facimilies. I like Vegas. I don't take it seriously though, unlike your problem, just like I don't see that building as the end of the world like you do.

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Your opinion and comparison are very dumb and childish, not liking such horrible building makes people negative? :|

Let's compare... If I took a picture of this as a tourist It would be to make me laugh even more later on....Not for is amazing engineering, beauty, quality or stunning design.. This is bad taste and poor quality... Period.


http://s02.picshome.com/321/200510364209999.jpg


You can't compare to these...


http://images5.theimagehosting.com/luxor6.jpg (http://www.theimagehosting.com)


http://images5.theimagehosting.com/paris2R.jpg (http://www.theimagehosting.com)

And in what way are the fake consumerised version of Eiffel tower and the pyramid considered in good taste and better quality than the statues. It's like saying "my house's plastered fake corinthian columns looks is better than your house's plastered fake doric columns"

what all of them reflects though, is a public misunderstood version of what is architecture today - postmodern architectural supermarket. It may look horrible, but it is an embodiment of what you are. Despise yourself if you like.

One thing, it's very Chinese :D

Indeed

:no: Terrible, nothing more.

That 'Eiffel Tower' looks so 'plastic'......