China's CCTV Headquarters Trying to Shake "Hemorrhoids" Nickname

The new CCTV building is now trying hard to not be known as “Hemorrhoids.”

The China Central Television headquarters is a 6.45 million square foot complex that involves twin leaning towers connected by two massive sections in midair. Designed by Rem Koolhaas, it's an amazing feat of engineering and architecture. But when CCTV proposed that they call it Zhichuang (meaning Knowledge Window), Chinese netizens saw its homophone, “Hemorrhoids.”