© Li Lei
CCTV – Television Cultural Centre
Against the strong architectural shape and definition of CCTV, the
adjacent Television Cultural Centre establishes a more informal
quality. The multiple functions required by the freely accessible
public program - a theatre, digital cinemas, recording studios,
press conference and exhibition space, and five-star hotel with
ballroom, conference rooms, and spa - are stacked to form an
accumulation of structurally independent volumes. A continuous skin
encompasses this assemblage: starting from the ground up, the skin
extends upwards to form the angular, sloping roof of the long
podium, and then becomes the vertical facade of the tower, wrapping
up over the top of the building and down the other side, defining
the actual shape of the fundamentally shapeless building - a freeze
frame of apparent instability.
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