CCTV – HEADQUARTERS, CHINA, BEIJING, 2002
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The CCTV headquarters aims at an alternative to the exhausted typology of the skyscraper. 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. 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. more.. |
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CCTV's form facilitates the combination of the entire process of TV-making in a loop of interconnected activities. Two towers rise from a common production studio platform, the Plinth. Each tower has a different character: Tower 1 serves as editing area and offices, and the lower Tower 2 is dedicated to news broadcasting. They are joined by a cantilevering bridge for administration, the Overhang. The innovative structure of the building is the result of long term collaboration between European and Chinese engineers to achieve new possibilities for the high-rise. The forces at work within the structure are rendered visible on the façade: a web of triangulated steel tubes - diagrids - that, instead of forming a regular pattern of diamonds, become dense in areas of greater stress, looser and more open in areas requiring less support. The façade itself becomes a visual manifestation of the building's structure. The self-supporting hybrid facade structure features high performance glass panels with a sun shading of 70 percent open ceramic frit, creating the soft silver-grey color that gives the building a surprisingly subtle presence in the Beijing skyline. The 10,000-square metre main lobby, in Tower 1, is an atrium stretching three floors underground, and three floors up. It has a direct connection with Beijing's subway network, and will be the arrival and departure hub for the 10,000 workers inside CCTV headquarters. Connected to the lobby, 12 studios (the largest is 2,000 square metres) perform the main function of the building: TV making. The CCTV headquarters also facilitates an unprecedented degree of public access to the production of China's media: a Public Loop takes visitors on a dedicated path through the building, revealing everyday studio work as well as the history of CCTV, and culminating at the edge of the cantilever, with spectacular views 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 CCTV Furniture Team: (in Rotterdam workshop) Saskia Simon, Yasuhito Hirose, Lingxiao Zhang, Antonio Barone
COLLABORATORS
Associate Architect and Engineer: ECADI (East
China Architecture and Design Institute), Shanghai Structure, Services, Fire, Security
Engineering: Arup, London/Hong Kong/Beijing Facade Engineering and Design Consultancy:
Front Inc, New York Broadcast Consultancy: Sandy Brown Associates
LLP, London Lighting: Lighting Planners Associates,
Tokyo Acoustics Consultancy: DHV Building and
Industry, Eindhoven Theatre Consultancy: Ducks Scéno, France Vertical Transportation Consultants: Lerch,
Bates & Associates, London High Rise Consultant: DMJMH+N, Los
Angeles Foodservice Consulting and Planning: Romano
Gatland, New York Landscape: Inside/Outside, Amsterdam Buildability: Stephen Scanlon, San Diego Signage / Graphics: 2x4 Strategic Advisor: Qingyun Ma
PRESS
New York Times, 11 July 2011 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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