CCTV Beijing Building, China Central Television, Design, Architect, Project, Photos

CCTV Headquarters in Beijing : China Central Television Building

CCTV Television Station and Headquarters, Beijing - design by OMA

16 May 2012 Central China TV Beijing CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, designed by OMA, completed Design: OMA Design: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren (until 2010), David Gianotten, in collaboration with partners Shohei Shigematsu, Ellen van Loon and Victor van der Chijs Beijing, 16 May 2012 - 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. Designed by OMA as a reinvention of the skyscraper as a loop, construction on the building began in 2004. At approximately 473, 000m2, CCTV - accommodating TV studios, offices, broadcasting and production facilities - is OMA’s largest ever project and its first major building in China. CCTV/OMA Partners-in-charge: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, designers, David Gianotten, photographed by Iwan Baan CCTV defies the skyscraper’s typical quest for ultimate height. Rising from a common platform, two towers lean towards each other and eventually merge in a perpendicular, 75-metre cantilever. The design combines the entire process of TV-making - formerly scattered in various locations across the city - into a loop of interconnected activities. CCTV/OMA Partners-in-charge: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, designers, David Gianotten, photographed by Iwan Baan 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. The façade itself becomes a visual manifestation of the building’s structure. Rem Koolhaas commented: “I am very happy, after years of intense collaboration, that the CCTV building will soon begin to perform its role in the way it is intended.” CCTV image courtesy of OMA The CCTV project was led by OMA / Rem Koolhaas, former OMA partner Ole Scheeren (until 2010), OMA partner David Gianotten and project manager Dongmei Yao in close collaboration with partners Shohei Shigematsu, Ellen van Loon and Victor van der Chijs. The design team consisted of project architects Anu Leinonen, Charles Berman and Adrianne Fisher together with a team of over 100 architects from OMA. The structural and MEP design was provided by Cecil Balmond and Arup, while ECADI (East China Architectural Design & Research Institute) functioned as the Local Design Institute. Design Consultants included Front INC, Inside/Outside, DHV, DMJMH+N, Lerch Bates & Associates, LPA, Sandy Brown Associates and Romano Gatland NY. CCTV photos : OMA / Philippe Ruault Central China TV Beijing images / information from OMA Comment from Anthony Sully What a monstrosity and an indication of the arrogance of OMA to produce a building that has so many design faults: several layered grids for the cladding with so may 'specials' to make it a laughable 1st year architectural project. A building plan that appears to have some regimented repeated components contrary to the mad leaning envelope. Anthony Sully, Monmouthshire, UK Previously: Central China TV - extract + selected images below China Central Television Headquarters construction reaches new milestone as façade is completed (Beijing, 6 August 2008) - The final panels of the glass facade of OMA’s CCTV building have been installed, marking a crucial stage in the construction of the new TV station for China’s national broadcaster, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren. CCTV photos by Ole Scheeren Construction of the 600,000 square meter project began in September 2004 on the 20 hectare site of an abandoned motorcycle factory in Beijing’s new Central Business District. After connecting the two leaning towers in December 2007 and topping out structural steel works this March, the CCTV building is due for completion end of 2009, whilst the adjacent Television Cultural Centre (TVCC), including the hotel operated by Mandarin Oriental is expected to open early next year. The third building on the site, the circular service building, is in operation and is presently being used for broadcasting of the Olympic Games. OMA partner in charge of the project Ole Scheeren said from Beijing: “After 6 years of intense collaboration with our client CCTV, our Chinese partners ECADI, and the engineers of ARUP, we are very pleased to see the successful completion of the exterior of the project on time for the Olympics. As the building now stands visibly in the city, it has added the three-dimensional figure of a loop to Beijing’s skyline of towers. It appears big yet sometimes small, and from every angle offers a completely different perspective and reading. We are hopeful to see the building emerge as a symbol of collaboration and change.” CCTV images courtesy of OMA Once completed, the CCTV building will transform the usually inaccessible environment of media and television production and give access to the public via the ‘Visitor’s Loop’, a dedicated path of circulation, which allows people to view and experience multiple aspects of the production process. The lowest floor of the overhang, the large cantilever projecting out 75 meters horizontally in 162 meters height, will feature a public media museum and a viewing deck with sights across the city and vertically down through circular glass floor openings. The facades of CCTV portray the irregular geometry of the building’s steel structure. Its sometimes dense, sometimes more open grid of diagonals forms the stability system of the building and reflects the distribution of forces that the structure experiences under different load conditions. The construction of the China Central Television buildings is led by Ole Scheeren from OMA’s Beijing offices, along with project manager Dongmei Yao, project architects Anu Leinonen and Andre Schmidt, and a team of dedicated architects. CCTV images courtesy of OMA CCTV Television Station and Headquarters - Building Information Project: CCTV Television Station and Headquarters Status: Competition 2002, 1st Prize. Completion 2008 Client: China Central Television (CCTV) Budget: €600m Location: Beijing, China Site: 18ha in new central business district Program: Total 575,000 m2: CCTV building 400,000m2; TVCC building 75,000m2; service building 15,000m2; parking 85,000m2 CCTV: administration 75,000m2; program offices 65,000m2; news production 70,000m2; broadcasting 40,000m2; program production 120,000m2; staff facilities 30,000m2; parking 65,000m2 TVCC: hotel 52,000m2; public facilities 23,000m2 including 1500 seat theatre; parking 20,000m2 Associate Architect and Engineer: ECADI (East China Architecture & Design Institute), Shanghai Structure, Services: Arup London, Hong Kong Strategic Advisor: Qingyun Ma, Shanghai High Rise Consultant: DMJMH+N, Los Angeles Curtain Wall: Front, New York Broadcast Design: ECADI, Shanghai / Sandy Brown Associates, London Acoustics: Dorsser Blesgraaf, Eindhoven Scenography: DuckS Scéno, France Vertical Transportation: Lerch Bates & Associates, London Lighting: LPA, Tokyo Central China TV Beijing images / information from OMA Central China TV architects : OMA

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