Fire Engulfs Beijing Hotel Complex David Gray/Reuters A crowd watched as a build

I guess their enginereing must be more advanced than the US's.

Nearly every floor on fire, yet it still stood. Good grief, this must be conspiricy!

BEIJING — A fierce fire engulfed one of the Chinese capital’s most architecturally celebrated modern buildings on Monday, the last day of festivities for the Lunar New Year when the city was ablaze with fireworks.

By early Tuesday, the blaze was extinguished but the cause remained unknown. One firefighter was killed and several were injured, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.

The 34-story structure had still been under construction and appeared Tuesday to have been destroyed.

The building, containing a luxury hotel and a cultural center designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, is part of China Central Television’s new headquarters, an angular behemoth built to coincide with the Beijing Olympics last year. The structure consists of two slanting towers that are joined by spans at the top and bottom.

Firefighters, their equipment only reaching up a dozen or so floors, could do little to contain the blaze, a spectacular wall of flames eerily reflected in the glass skin of the adjacent CCTV tower.

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Fire Consumes WTC 7-Size Skyscraper, Building Does Not Collapse.

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