Instead of competing in the race for ultimate height and style within a traditional two-dimensional tower 'soaring' skyward, CCTV's loop poses a truly three-dimensional experience, culminating in a 75-metre cantilever. May 24, 2012 - Completed in 2012 in Beijing, China.
The jury included architect Arata … Images by Philippe Ruault, OMA, Jim Gourley.
Text description provided by the architects. The new CCTV headquarters was completed in time to broadcast the 2008 Beijing Olympics. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images. 1st Prize. Consulting services performed by RWDI (en inglés). Each tower has a different character: Tower 1 serves as editing area and offices, and the lower Tower 2 is dedicated to news broadcasting.
CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China: Building the structure Erecting two massive leaning Towers, and connecting them with a 9-13 storey Overhang suspended 36 storeys in the air, presented the structural engineers and contractors with unprecedented design and construction challenges. To support the rapid expansion of China Central Television (CCTV ) in 2002 launched an international competition to design the building that would be headquartered in Beijing. The winner was the architectural firm OMA Rem Koolhaas, accompanied by engineering firm Arup and Architecture Design Institute of East China. 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 1 January 2002, after winning an international design competition. The CCTV Headquarters or China Central Television Headquarters, and also known as CMG Office Block at Guanghua Road is a 234-metre (768 ft), 51-story skyscraper on East Third Ring Road, Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business District (CBD). China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters Building & Cultural Centre, Beijing page for the engineering firm ARUP (en inglés). CCTV Headquarters iDesigned by Rem Koolhaas. This past wednesday, OMA participated in the official construction completion ceremony for the China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters in Beijing… Ben T Rem Koolhaas : OMA. The L-shaped high-rise towers were designed by Rem Koolhass and Ole Scheeren of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, the totally unique CCTV building is one of the largest office buildings in the world. … OMA Koolhaas CCTV - HEADQUARTERS, CHINA, BEIJING, 2002 New headquarters for China Central Television. The structure of the building involves two 60° leaning towers that are bent at 90° at the top and bottom. The design combines the entire process of TV-making, formerly scattered in various locations across the city, into a loop of interconnected activities. The Beijing skyline with the new China Central Television (CCTV) building (centre).
The design combines the entire process of TV-making, formerly scattered in various locations across the city, into a loop of interconnected activities.
The facade of the leaning, conjoined towers was completed before the 2008 Olympic Games. Because of its radical shape… Two towers rise from a common production studio platform, the Plinth. ↑ CCTV/OMA, photographed by Iwan Baan. The building is visible from most of Beijing; it sometimes comes across as big and sometimes small, from some angles strong and from others soft. The construction of the building is considered to be a structural challenge, especially because it is in a seismic zone.
CCTV’s form facilitates the combination of the entire process of TV-making in a loop of interconnected activities.