{"id":6225,"date":"2015-02-03T18:46:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2015-02-08T17:44:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T21:44:37","slug":"beijing-television-cultural-center-tvcc-mandarin-oriental-hotel-44-floor-steel-building-on-fire-for-6-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/beijing-television-cultural-center-tvcc-mandarin-oriental-hotel-44-floor-steel-building-on-fire-for-6-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Television Cultural Center &#8211; TVCC (Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel) 44-floor steel building on fire for 6 hours."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6hSPFL2Zlpg?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In February, 2009 the\u00a0Beijing Television Cultural Center &#8211; TVCC \u00a0(main tenant was Mandarin Oriental Hotel) <strong>burned for six (6) hours<\/strong> after being accidentally set\u00a0on fire by staff in the adjacent CCTV (China Central Television) building who were setting off fireworks for the Yuanxiao holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Yuanxiao holiday is also known in English as the <em>Lantern Festival<\/em>. \u00a0 The\u00a0festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the Lunisolar year in the lunar calendar marking the last day of the lunar New Year celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can view the immense fireworks display, which lead t0 the fire, in the video below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PiMANTGACng?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s a picture of the building before the fire:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-a.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese steel building burned for 6 hours 911 truth a\" width=\"640\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-a-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s a picture of the building after the fire:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-b.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese steel building burned for 6 hours 911 truth b\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-b-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s the building being rebuilt in 2011,<strong> with the same steel that burned for six (6) hours<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-c.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese steel building burned for 6 hours 911 truth c\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-c.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese-steel-building-burned-for-6-hours-911-truth-c-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The initial images of the blaze suggested that the tower might be nearly destroyed. However, Rem Koolhaas said that,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;they are simply rebuilding it as it was, because there was no structural damage.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Remment Lucas &#8220;Rem&#8221; Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">World Trade Center, September 11, 2001:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">South Tower: \u00a0collapsed at 9:59\u00a0a.m. after <strong>burning for approximately 56 minutes<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">North Tower: \u00a0collapsed at 10:28\u00a0a.m. after <strong>burning for approximately 102\u00a0minutes<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source &#8211;<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NIST NCSTAR 1-1 (2005), p. 34; pp. 45\u201346<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">World Trade Center 7 (47-floor steel building): \u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">endured fire for almost seven hours,<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:28:22 a.m. until 5:20:52 p.m., and then collapsed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source &#8211;<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/el\/disasterstudies\/wtc\/faqs_wtc7.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/el\/disasterstudies\/wtc\/faqs_wtc7.cfm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please exercise your free speech in the comments section below. 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