Ever since the success in bidding for the 2008 Olympic games, across the central axis and the east-west axis in Beijing, architecture starts to become medium for the host’s message, the demand in architecture is for expressions of immensity and size. Rems words disclose this reality “Beyond a certain critical mass each structure becomes a monument, or at least raises that expectation through its size alone, even if the sum or the nature of the individual activities it accommodates does not deserve a monumental expression. 

The programmatic and architecturally motivated compositional principle is no longer the first key response. And from here, we might start to see the split between architecture itself serving as an image or space serving for people. And GUOMAO nowadays, from the dusty manufactory park, successfully transformed into the HUTONG version of deconstructed Manhattan.

The architectural system had been transformed unconsciously. The metropolis has been an unpredictable city due to these ever-changing conditions - world economy, population migration, and environmental degradation. If Building as a city had been determined as isolated islands with the separation of building exterior and interior, Every iconic building of GuoMao is maximum the urbanistic ego, and the proliferation of the individuality of each building makes GuoMao an archipelago of possibilities. 

Buildings within this region set an invisible boundary, Liberalism, accountability, and openness are manifested here not in inhabitable, material form, but as icons, as architectural gestures. There seems to be an unbalanced relationship between the building external and the programmatic internal. And causing the congestion condition/phenomenon within this urban context as Rem mentioned.