By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Architects: OMA - Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren [8], The building was built in three buildings that were joined to become one and a half buildings on 30 May 2007. Consultants [8] On 25 October 2009, scaffolds were set up in the front gate of CCTV which indicated the renovation of the building had begun. Thin concrete cores inside the building support the internal floors. Proposing avant-garde lighting schemes still meant consuming all our time grinding through details . The China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing, China is a new style of building using a diagonal grid exoskeleton beam structural system. Completion: 2012 ABB installed 67 transformers and 90 UniGear ZS1 air-insulated switchgear units to power the building. [9] The CCTV building was part of a media park intended to form a landscape of public entertainment, outdoor filming areas, and production studios as an extension of the central green axis of the CBD.[10]. It was constructed from 2005-2009. Administration, news, broadcasting, and program production offices and studios are all contained inside. The construction of the building is considered to be a structural challenge, especially because it is in a seismic zone. Introduction - Developer: China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters - international competition 2002 - Architect: Rem Koolhaas (OMA) - … By following a dedicated public loop, visitors can watch the work being done in the studios as well as access a panoramic room in the cantilevered structure, which offers views of the Imperial Palace and the entire city of Beijing. [14], Beijing's CBD with the CCTV tower and China World Trade Center Tower 3 nearing completion (July 2008), CCTV headquarters in China, Beijing district nearing completion (April 2008), For the buildings used by China Central Television, see, Zhōngyāng Guǎngbō Diànshì Zǒngtái Guānghuá Lù Bàngōng Qū, Lecture by Ole Scheeren from the OMA, Design Academy Eindhoven, 17/10/07, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, "China's distinctive CCTV headquarters is completed", "Forbidden Cities: Beijing's great new architecture is a mixed blessing for the city", "China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters", "Fire Ravages Renowned Building in Beijing", Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Project Site, China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters Building & Cultural Centre, Beijing page, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CCTV_Headquarters&oldid=969972878, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, China State Construction and Engineering Corporation, This page was last edited on 28 July 2020, at 13:54. Designed by OMA as a reinvention of the skyscraper as a loop, construction on the building began in 2004. The high-rise consultant was DMJMH+N of Los Angeles. This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to The interconnection between the different activities involved in television production has dictated the form of China Central Television’s new headquarters in Beijing. Its scale and intricate organization echoes the city tissue of ancient parts of Beijing and complements the clear character of the new buildings. The CCTV Headquarters serves as the headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) that was formerly at the old China Central Television Building located at 11 Fuxin Road some 15 km (9.3 mi) to the west. Visit our privacy The 160 m (520 ft) Mandarin Oriental Hotel was badly damaged and one fire fighter was killed. The towers were constructed at opposite diagonal corners of a 160m × 160m footprint and linked by an L-shaped nine-storey podium with three underground floors. This tower is 210m high (44 floors) and has a building footprint of 40m by 52m (2,000m²). }); Copyright ©2020. All Rights Reserved BNP Media. [8], The building was built in three buildings that were joined to become one and a half buildings on 30 May 2007. About CCTV Headquarters The CCTV headquarters is an unusual take on the skyscraper typology. 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. [7] Locals often refer to it as "big pants". The Climate Pledge Arena project involves the redevelopment of the 58-year-old KeyArena in Seattle, US, into a world-class arena. The CCTV Headquarters serves as the headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) that was formerly at the old China Central Television Building located at 11 Fuxin Road some 15 km (9.3 mi) to the west. and cookie policy to learn more about the cookies we use and how we use your // End epub.afterMenu callback The building is constructed on a 10ha site adjacent to the Third Ring Road in Beijing in the new Central Business District. Structural: Ove Arup & Partners - Cecil Balmond, Rory McGowan, Stephen Jolly The structure of the CCTV Headquarters, and the forces at work within it, is visible on its façade: a web of diagonals that becomes dense in areas of greater stress, looser and more open in areas requiring less support. It was to have the Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel, a visitor's center, a large public theatre, two recording studios with three audio control rooms, a digital cinema and two screening rooms. CCTV, the state-run television station upon which China has placed its reputation, is an extraordinary company, a growing and dominant media force not only in China but around the world. [6] Because of its radical shape, it is said that a taxi driver first came up with its nickname dà kùchǎ (大裤衩), roughly translated as, "big boxer shorts". The CCTV Headquarters won the 2013 Best Tall Building Worldwide from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The CCTV buildings has to conform to strict seismic requirements. The building has to have a resistance to intensity 8 with a peak ground acceleration of 0.2g. Groundbreaking took place on 1 June 2004 and the building's facade was completed in January 2008. The Piranesi drawings were translated into a pixilated system, so that the landscape design could be mapped, instructed, executed, organized and maintained in an easier way. Cost of Construction: 600.000.000 Euros Today OMA participated in the official construction completion ceremony for the China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters in Beijing, which will start to be used later this year. In 2004 a design competition based on the overall Masterplan was organized for the Media Park, a 25,600m2 space on the southeast block of the CCTV site that is an extension of the shopping and green zone in the main axis of Beijing’s central business district. In order not to lock in structural differentials this connection was scheduled in the early morning when the steel in the two towers cooled to the same temperature. The construction of the building is considered to be a structural challenge, especially because it is in a seismic zone. [11] It is among the first of 300 new towers in the new Beijing CBD. We hung our sketches on the wall and debated their merits. This tower contains administration, news, broadcasting, studios, programme production areas, staff facilities and parking. The CCTV Headquarters serves as the headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) that was formerly at the old China Central Television Building located at 11 Fuxin Road some 15 km (9.3 mi) to the west. The CCTV headquarters offers an unprecedented level of public access compared to most Chinese buildings. The design combines the entire process of TV-making – formerly scattered in various locations across the city – into a loop of interconnected activities. The TVCC building has a total of 95,000m² of floor space, with the luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel occupying 52,000m²; public facilities 23,000m² including a 1,500-seat theatre and a parking facility of 20,000m². A public media museum will be located on the cantilevered part of the building. Visit our updated, This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. The jury included architect Arata Isozaki and critic Charles Jencks.