CCTV – HEADQUARTERS, CHINA, BEIJING, 2002
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| New headquarters and cultural center for China Central Television |
By OMA © All rights reserved
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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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CCTV's distinctive loop aims to offer an alternative to the exhausted typology of the skyscraper. In spite of their potential to incubate new cultures, programs, and ways of life, most skyscrapers accommodate merely routine activity, arranged according to predictable patterns. Formally, their expressions of verticality have proven to stunt the imagination: as verticality soars, creativity crashes. Instead of competing in the hopeless race for ultimate height and style within a traditional two-dimensional tower 'soaring' skyward, CCTV proposes a truly three-dimensional experience, culminating in a canopy that symbolically embraces the entire city. CCTV consolidates all its operations in a continuous flow, allowing each worker to be permanently aware of her colleagues - a chain of interdependence that promotes solidarity rather than isolation, collaboration instead of opposition. The loop also facilitates an unprecedented degree of public
access to the production of China's media: visitors will be
admitted to a dedicated path circulating through the building,
connecting all elements of the program and offering spectacular
views from the multiple facades towards the CBD, the Forbidden
City, and the rest of Beijing. |
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FACT SHEET
Status: Tower 1 Height: 234m, 54 floors. Footprint: 40x60m,2,400m2 Tower 2 Height: 210m, 44 floors. Footprint: 40x52m, 2,000m2 Overhang bottom 162m, 14 floors Overhang cantilever 75m to the west, 67m to the south Base height 45m, 9 floors, footprint 160x160m Basement -18m, 4 floors
CREDITS
Partners in charge: With: Jeffrey Bolhuis, Georg Bucher, Johannes Buchholz, Paul Burgstaller, Max Burianek, Tim Callaghan, Gonzalo Laurentiu Coceanga, Guillaume Colboc, Pedro Costa Gama, Dorthee Dietz, Melissa Dowler, Lodewijk van Eeghen, Rodney Eggleston, Steffen Ell, Mamen Escorihueles, Joris Fach, Joao Gomes Branco Teodosio, Hendrik Gruss, James Harper, Yiannis Kanakakis, Suse Koch, Lawrence Leung, Li Guilin, Menno van der Meer, Rodrigo Nunez Carrasco, Florian Pucher, Beatriz Ramo Lopez, Max Rink, Beatrice Schiavina, Max Schwitalla, Manuel Shvartzberg, Arianna Spaccasassi, Antonio Teles Branco, Laurent Troost, Loy Tsao, Steffie Wedde, Wang Yunzhu, Yu Long Support: Lisa Aalders, May Yan Fan, Li Dan, Liu Aoshuang, Liu Yonghong, Sun Yongzhen, Ou Qiang, Wang Yimeng, Wang Yu, Wu Xinghua, Xu Yi, Zhang Yajuan Competition Team: Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, Shohei Shigematsu, Alain Fouraux, Fernando Donis; with Adrianne Fisher, Anu Leinonen, Hiromasa Shirai, Tammo Prinz, Catarina Canas, Erez Ella, Victoria Willocks, Johannes Buchholz, Guillaume Colboc, Mamen Escorihuela, Sarah Gibson, Shiro Ogata, Torsten Schroeder, L. E. Tsao, Zhaohui Wu, Yimin Zhu
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 Team: Carolina Bartram, Paul Cross, Mimmy Dino, Richard Lawson, Zhao-Fan Li, Peng Liu, Andrew Luong, John MacArthur, Hamish Nevile, Dan Pook, Chas Pope, Andrew Smith, Terence Yip, ??, with: Abdul Ahmed, Wayne Chan, Dean Clabrough, Omar Diallo, Sam Hatch, Jonathan Kerry, Ronald Li, Man-kit Luk, Steve Peet, Fei Tong, Paul Tonkin, Ben Urick, William Whitby, Robin Wilkinson, Baiqian Wan, Yihua Wang, Michelle Wong, Stella Wong, Eric Wu, Angela Yeung, George Zhao. Services – Directors: Alistair Guthrie, Stephen Jolly, Iain Lyall. Mechanical – Lead: Clodagh Ryan. Lead Beijing: Lewis Shiu. Team: John Allcock, Olly Base, Graham Beadle, Peter Brickell, Kenneth Chong, Judy Coleman, Eddie Scuffell, Jodh Singh, William Zhang, with: Annie Chen, Rachel Harris, Alex Hart, Tai Hollingsbee, Paul Lander, Martin Walton, William Wong, G B Wang. Electrical – Lead: John Pullen. Lead – HK / Beijing: Kenneth Sin. Team: Chi Wing Chow, Chai Kok Eow, Dane Green, Sabrina Wong, with: Geoff Balrow, Tony Campbell, Stephen Chan, Mike Evans, Nathan Hattersley, Bob Jones, Tony Monroe, David Seager, Olumayowa Soluade, Sam Wise, Alba Xu, Kai-sing Yung. Public Health – Lead: David George Team: Graham Humphreys, Bob Lau, Adam Martin, Glen Swinney; With: James Cheung, Jun Chen, Yang Ming, De-Ming Wen. Security: David Hadden, Simon Brimble, with: Philip Barker, Jeff Green, John Haddon, Ryan Sukhram, Andrew Webster. Geotechnics – Mark Choi, Jack Pappin, with: Gary Ge, Dominic Holt, James Lui. ATG – Xiaonian Duan, with: Colin Ho, Yang Wang Control: David Pritchard. Wind: Roy Denoon, Alex To, with: Andrew Minson. Fire – Lead: Mingchun Luo, Longde Zhao. Team: Angela Chan, Barbara Lane, Susan Lamont, with: Shi Bibo, Dagang Guo, Gene Kwan, Kang Li, He Wei, Kelvin Wong Facade Engineering and Design Consultancy: Front Inc, New York Partner, Project Leader: Marc Simmons Partners: Bruce Nichol, Martin Riese Director of Engineering: Philip Khalil Senior Engineer: Chen Zhan Facade Consultant: Brian Guerrero Broadcast Consultancy: Sandy Brown Associates LLP, London Consultant: David Lamberty Lighting: Lighting Planners Associates Tokyo Principal: Kaoru Mende Directors: Yutaka Inaba, Mari Kubota, Hideto Mori, Ryuichi Sawada, Kentato Tanaka Senior Associate: Mari Kubota Associates: Ken Okamoto, Chika Tanaka Planners: Aki Hayakawa, Junko Inomoto, Momoko Muraoka, Akiko Okunaka, Natsuko Ueda Acoustics Consultancy: DHV Building and Industry, Eindhoven Principal Consultant: L.(Renz).C.J. van Luxemburg Senior Consultant: Theo .M.J. Raijmakers Senior Consultant: B.H.M. Kok Consultant: Stephan. J.W. Nabbe Consultants: Nicole A.H.M. van Hout, Marly L.C. Kole, Bertie W.M. van den Braak Theatre Consultancy: dUCKS Scéno, France Scenographer: Michel Cova Lighting and Audiovisual Designers: Aldo de Sousa, Jean-François Mathais Stage Equipment Designers and Engineers: Stefan Abromeit, Clément Dreano Vertical Transportation Consultants: Lerch, Bates & Associates, London Project Director: Adrian Godwin Project Engineers: Chris Manning, Peter Noon Design Engineers: Les Gilbey, Thet Khin High Rise Consultant: DMJMH+N, Los Angeles Principal: Michael Mann Project Architect: Bruce Toman Senior Architect: John Hess Architect: Jane Chen Foodservice Consulting and Planning: Romano Gatland, New York Principal for Programming; Principal in Charge: Christopher C. Brady CCTV Principal for Design CCTV; Project Manager: Mark V. Romano TVCC Principal for Design TVCC: Russ Pizzuto Principal for Programming: Gary Nokes Team: David Cutrone, Stanley D. Gatland, Matthew Gatland, Matthew Klein, W. Michael Kell, John LoBianco, James Pizzuto, Shrley Heng Romano Landscape: Inside Outside, Amsterdam Principal Designer: Petra Blaisse Architect: Mathias Lehner Landscape Architect: Rosetta Elkin Architectural Assistant: Yukiko Nezu Consultant: Marieke van den Heuvel Buildability: Stephen Scanlon, San Diego Strategic Advisor: Qingyun Ma, Shanghai
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)
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 The Guardian, 30 July 2002 Financial Times, 20 October 2002 de Volkskrant, 24 December 2002 Time + Architecture, #69 January 2003 International Architecture Urbanism, #1 January 2003 Financial Times, 24 January 2003 AMC Le Moniteur Architecture, #131 February 2003 Contemporary Architecture, #48 March 2003 A+U, #389 March 2003 A+U, #390 March 2003 de Architect, June 2003 Area, #69 August 2003 A+U, #399 October 2003 NRC Handelsblad, 20 December 2003 Domus, #864 December 2003 Archplus, #168 February 2004 Financial Times, 11 February 2004 A+U, #404 May 2004 The New York Times, 16 July 2004 International Herald Tribune, 20 July 2004 Architectural Digest, #43 August 2004 Build, #3 2004 Architectural Record, #3 2004 Wired, #12.8 August 2004 A+U special Issue July 2005 Mark, #01 Winter 2005 Business Week, 16 January 2006 Frieze, #99 May 2006 Casabella, #747 August 2006 Volume, #2 2006 |
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