Beijing, Sep 2 (DPA) While architecture should inspire, the 'naked truth' now uncovered by Chinese media about the ambitious new Beijing headquarters of the state-run television CCTV might go a bit too far.

Beijing residents initially likened the buildings, designed by Dutch-German architects Rem Kolhaas and Ole Scheeren, to trouser legs or boxer shorts, but critics now detect the shapes of the male and female genitals in the post-modern designs.

'The main building looks like a naked woman on her knees, with her backside facing the viewer - and the annex building has the shape of a phallus,' wrote Xiao Mo, a retired professor of architecture of Beijing's prestigious Qinghua University.

Outraged over the 'giant bottom', Xiao joined forces with others who consider it a national disgrace, which is believed to have cost about $1 billion, to be torn down. 'I cannot think of any reason not to blow it up,' he said.

The scholar, whose comments were widely distributed on China's internet, is a known critic of foreign architects who can live out their wildest fantasies in China's construction boom. The association with a buttocks is not as far fetched as it may sound. It made its first, ill-judged appearance in the magazine Content, published by Kolhaas's company OMA.

A content cover designer mock-up shows the CCTV arch next to a porn shot of a naked woman on her knees, her buttocks and legs allegedly mirroring the shape of the glass-and-steel construction.

'Architecture like you've never seen it,' a caption says. The tactless cover was never actually used, but - together with other rejected drafts - still found its way into the appendix.

The cover for the 2004 magazine edition instead shows caricatures of former US president George W. Bush, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, and Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein in a Rambo-like pose.

OMA chose this cover 'in which the CCTV building is presented as a positive and shining symbol of a changing world order - which reflects our sincere intention with the design,' Kolhaas said. There was no hidden meaning, he stressed, rejecting accusations about the building being a nasty joke.

The porn designs are not new and have been accessible on the Chinese art website www.