| CCTV – HEADQUARTERS, CHINA, BEIJING, 2002 |
| New headquarters and cultural center for China Central Television |
By Iwan Baan © All rights reserved
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Panorama view of CCTV under construction The new headquarters for China Central Television, OMA's largest project to date, combines the entire process of TV-making – administration, production, broadcasting – into a single loop of interconnected activity. Rising from a common platform accommodating production facilities, two towers – one dedicated to broadcasting, one to services, research, and education – lean towards each other and eventually merge in a dramatic, seemingly impossible cantilever. more... |
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FACT SHEET
Status: Competition: 2002 Completion due: Late 2009 Client: China Central Television (CCTV) Site: 20 hectares in new Central Business District Program: CCTV: total 473,000m2: administration 64,800m2, multi-purpose: 54,900m2, news broadcasting 65,000m2, broadcasting 31,800m2, production 105,400m2, loop 11,100m2, services (canteens, gym) 22,500m2, parking 59,700m2. Budget: 5 billion RMB (€850 million) more... COLLABORATORS Associate Architects and Engineers: ECADI (East China Architecture & Design Institute), Shanghai Structure + Services: Arup, London / Hong Kong / Beijing Project Principal: Cecil Balmond Project Director: Rory McGowan Project Director, Beijing: Michael Kwok Project Manager, Beijing: Craig Gibbons CCTV Structure – Lead: Chris Carroll Technical Adviser Beijing: Goman Ho Project Manager: Alexis Lee TVCC Structure – Lead: Stuart Smith more... CONSTRUCTION Construction for the CCTV Headquarters, Television Cultural Centre, Media Park and Service Building began in December 2004. The construction site is closed to visitors. more... QUOTES "The project is one of the most visionary since modernism and beyond. It pushes the limits of architecture, not just formally but, more importantly, socially, culturally, and technologically through the reinvention of the tall building. The various functions of buildings, their spatial articulation and organization, have been completely rethought to provoke a new kind of collective construct with the potential for social and urban change." – Tina di Carlo, assistant curator of architecture and design at the Museum for Modern Art (MoMA) |
OTHER STRUCTURES
Television Cultural Center Service Building Media Park CREDITS Partners in charge: Ole Scheeren, Rem Koolhaas Project Manager: Dongmei Yao Project Architects: Charles Berman, David Chacon, Chris van Duijn, Erez Ella, Adrianne Fisher, Anu Leinonen, Andre Schmidt, Shohei Shigematsu, Hiromasa Shirai, Steven Smit Team: Gabriela Bojalil, Joao Bravo Da Costa, Catarina Canas, Holly Chacon, Dan Cheong, Stephane Derveaux, Keren Engelman, Gaspard Estourgie, Tieying Fang, Pei Feng, Sarah Gibson, Chris James, Abhijit Kapade, Michel van der Kar, Paul Kroese, Peter Lee, Xiaodong Liu, Stuard Maddox, Joseph Monteleone, Cristina Murphy, Shiro Ogata, Roberto Otero, Daan Ooievaar, Torsten Schroeder, Wenchian Shi, Kamfai Tai, Faustina Tsai, Jasmine Tsoi, Xinyuan Wang, Luke Willis, Victoria Willocks, You Wu, Tian Tian Xu, Dirk Zschunke more... PRESS Newsweek, 13 January 2003 China Daily, 2 March 2004 Time Asia, 26 April 2004 BusinessWeek, 9 November 2006 New York Times, 16 November 2006 Wall Street Journal, 7 November 2007 USA Today, 1 January 2008 more... |
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