China Central Television Headquarters building
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| China Central Television Headquarters building 中央电视台总部大楼 |
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| Location |  Beijing |
| Status | Complete |
| Constructed | 2004 - 2008 |
| Opening | 2008 |
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| Architect | Rem Koolhaas |
The CCTV Headquarters is a skyscraper in the Beijing Central Business District. The building is the headquarters of China Central Television. Groundbreaking took place on September 22, 2004 and the building was completed in December 2008. Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA were the architects for the building, while Arup provided the complex engineering design. It stands at 234 metres (768 ft) tall and has 51 floors.[1]
The main building is not a traditional tower, but a continuous loop of six horizontal and vertical sections covering 381,000 square metres (4.1 million square feet) of floor space, creating an irregular grid on the building’s facade with an open center. The construction of the building is considered to be a structural challenge, especially because it is in a seismic zone. Because of its radical shape, it has acquired the nickname dà kùchǎ (大裤衩)[2], meaning "big shorts".[3]
The building was built in two sections that were joined to complete the loop on December 26, 2007. In order not to lock in structural differentials this connection was planned to be completed at the coldest time of night when the steel in the two towers cooled to the same temperature.[4] The CCTV building was part of a media park intended to form a landscape of public entertainment, outdoor filming areas, and production studios as an extension of the central green axis of the CBD.[5]
An adjacent building in the complex, the 'Television Cultural Center', caught on fire, ignited by fireworks on Lantern Festival day, February 9, 2009, before the building's scheduled completion in May 2009. It was to have the Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel, a visitor's center, a large public theatre, and exhibition space. Its shell remains visible from the main intersection of the new Central Business District through the window of the main CCTV headquarters building. The building is currently being rebuilt.
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[edit] Background
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture won the contract from the Beijing International Tendering Co. to construct the CCTV Headquarters and the Television Cultural Center by its side on December 20, 2002. It is among the first of 300 new towers in the new Beijing CBD. Administration, news, broadcasting, and program production offices and studios are all contained inside.
[edit] References
- ^ "CCTV Headquarters". Emporis.com. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=cctvheadquarters-beijing-china. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.
- ^ http://www.wowa.cn/a_ArticleShow.aspx?view_id=59649
- ^ "Forbidden Cities: Beijing’s great new architecture is a mixed blessing for the city.". The New Yorker. 2008-06-30. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2008/06/30/080630crsk_skyline_goldberger. Retrieved on 2008-08-05.
- ^ Lecture by Ole Scheeren from the OMA, Design Academy Eindhoven, 17/10/07
- ^ China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters Building & Cultural Centre, Beijing | East Asia | Arup
[edit] External links
- CCTV Project Site
- Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Project Site
- China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters Building & Cultural Centre, Beijing page for the engineering firm ARUP
- Consulting services performed by RWDI
[edit] Images
Media related to China Central Television Headquarters building at Wikimedia Commons(empty)- 2008 April photo of the building
Coordinates: 39°54′54″N 116°27′27″E / 39.915°N 116.4575°E
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