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The world would be so boring if everything and everyone was exactly alike. Thankfully, when it comes to building design, the sky is the limit... At least, in many places around the world.
China made headlines in 2016, after announcing that the government planned to ban "bizarre" and "odd-shaped" buildings. Ironically, the country was at the forefront of unique architecture, and was home to some of the wildest buildings in the world at the time.
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Take Beijing's "big pants" building, for example. The state-owned China Central TV Headquarters is an icon in the country's capital and was one of the first unique and "weird" structures.
The steel and glass building got its nickname from its unusual and experimental angular looped shape. It is made up of two leaning towers, joined on the upper floors by a 75-metre cantilevered bridge, and looks very much like... you guessed it: a huge pair of pants.
The structure and facades were completed ahead of the Summer Olympics in 2008 for all the world to see. But the building was only officially opened in 2012.
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The "big pants" was once billed as "the greatest work of architecture built in this century" by architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff.
"At moments monumental and combative, at others strangely elusive, almost retiring, it is one of the most beguiling and powerful works I've seen in a lifetime of looking at architecture," Ouroussof proclaimed.
But that didn't stop China's president from criticizing the building, and going a step further by announcing a proposed ban on "weird" architecture in the country.
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The CCTV "big pants" skyscraper was just one of China's "weird" buildings that came under fire by president Xi Jinping in 2014 when he gave a two-hour speech lamenting bizarre structures. The Chinese leader also hit out at twp bridges over the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in Chongqing, which have been compared to female private parts.
Fast forward two years later, and in February 2016, China announced that it would no longer allow such creativity when it comes to city skylines. In a document, the country's State Council forbade "oversized, xenocentric and weird" buildings, stating that all new buildings should be "suitable, economic, green and pleasing to the eye".
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