...But what should one make of famous architects from Europe, the US and Japan competing to build a new headquarters for CCTV, the state television company?...Among those who vied for the $600m (£385m) project are such luminaries as Rem Koolhaas, Dominique Perrault, Toyo Ito, and the New York skyscraper specialists SOM...huge numbers of workers and peasants are being exploited, thrown out of work or driven out of their homes. Instead of free speech and democracy, there is propaganda. That is what CCTV is for. And that is what our architects are helping to maintain. It is not a noble enterprise.