Rem Koolhaas's design for the new CCTV building in Beijing has been one of the most hailed, criticized, and generally talked-about buildings in the world since Koolhaus won a design competition in 2002. The New Yorker's Paul Goldberger recently called the new headquarters for Chinese broadcasters "a dazzling re-invention of the skyscraper," but the building has also been damned as overscale -- it's got nearly as much office space as the Pentagon -- and it has long been plagued by delays and budgeting issues. The building also inspired a heated debate on the ethics involved when architects' have authoritarian regimes as their clients. Anyway, it's done now -- or at least the facade is, just beating the Olympics deadline: cctvbuildingdone.jpg Koolhaas's bid for a Chinese masterpiece Via an impressed David Basulto, at Arch Daily ...