Chinese Building For People's Daily Looks Like a Penis

Chinese Building For People's Daily Looks Like a Penis When the construction began of the 32-storey Beijing headquarters for the People’s Daily newspaper entered its final stages earlier this year, those questions have been whizzing around cyberspace with increasing velocity.

The builder has spoken out, rebutting allegations that his 180-metre, £154 milloin creation was unmistakeably “phallic” in shape, but claiming that “unexpected interpretations” were part of the beauty of his trade. “When the scaffolding is taken down upon the completion of construction, people will stop seeing it as a phallic tower,” Zhou Qi, the chief architect, told Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post.

When it is completed next May, the 150,000 sq metre media complex will house the newsroom of the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s mouthpiece newspaper and a notorious propaganda sheet.