The CCTV Headquarters is a skyscraper that is currently under construction in Beijing, China. The building will be the new headquarters of China Central Television. Groundbreaking took place on September 22, 2004.
It is planned to be completed in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA are the architects for the building, while Arup provide the complex engineering design. The building will stand at 234 meters or 755 feet tall and will have 51 floors.
The main building is not a traditional tower, but a continuous loop of five horizontal and vertical sections covering 4,100,000 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 nicknames such as “Twisted Donut” and “The Pants” by locals.
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 completed at the last minute.
A second building, the Television Cultural Centre , includes a hotel, a visitor’s centre, a large public theatre, and exhibition spaces. It is visible from the main intersection of the new Beijing Central Business District through the window of the main CCTV headquarters building. A media park forms a landscape of public entertainment, outdoor filming areas, and production studios as an extension of the central green axis of the CBD.
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.
CCTV Headquarters, when completed, is slated to be among the first of 300 new towers in the new Beijing CBD. It is to consist of a design of a non-traditional, continuous loop in which administration, news, broadcasting, and program production will all take place.
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