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Metropolitan Architecture:
CCTV TELEVISION STATION AND HEADQUARTERS CREDITS
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
CCTV Television Station + HQ images by/from OMA
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
CCTV Television Station and Headquarters
(Beijing, December 20, 2002) CCTV’s new 553,000 m2 headquarters will
be among the first of 300 towers to be constructed in Beijing’s new
Central Business District. The total construction cost is estimated at
600 Million Euro. The project will be completed for the Beijing Olympics
in 2008.
The CCTV headquarters will be one of the first European skyscrapers to
be built in China. As part of an international architectural competition
organized by the Beijing International Tendering Co., the scheme presented
by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was awarded the contract
on December 20.
The OMA scheme was chosen from ten competitors, including Dominique Perrault
from France and KPF and SOM from the United States. An international jury
that included architect Arata Isozaki and critic Charles Jencks selected
three teams for the second phase: Toyo Ito & Associates in collaboration
with FCJZ of Beijing, the East China Architecture & Design Institute,
and OMA.
On the 10-hectare site in the new Central Business District in Beijing,
the OMA proposal consolidates the program in an iconic configuration of
two high-rise buildings:
The new CCTV headquarters, at a height of 230m and a floor area of 405,000m2,
combines administration with news, broadcasting, studios and program production
- the entire process of TV making - in a sequence of interconnected activities.
Although the building is 230 meter tall it is not a traditional tower,
but a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections that establish
an urban site rather than point to the sky. The irregular grid on the
building’s facades is an expression of the forces traveling throughout
its structure.
The second building, the 116,000 m2 Television Cultural Center (TVCC)
includes a hotel, a visitor’s center, a large public theatre and
exhibition spaces. It is visible from the main intersection of the Central
Business District through the ‘window’ of the CCTV headquarters.
A Media Park forms a landscape of public entertainment, outdoor filming
areas and production studios as an extension of the central green axis
of the CBD.
Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren will be partners-in-charge. The OMA design
team will consist of Shohei Shigematsu, Adrianne Fisher, Hiromasa Shirai,
Anu Leinonen, Charles Berman and many others. Qingyun Ma from Shanghai
will be advisor to the project.
The CCTV Headquarters will be realized in collaboration with ECADI, the
East China Architecture & Design Institute from Shanghai.
Cecil Balmond and his team of Ove Arup & Partners will be responsible
for the structural and mechanical engineering.
OMA will collaborate with its media and research branch AMO.
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture is concerned with contemporary
architecture, urbanism and general cultural issues. The company is lead
by partners Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren and Ellen van Loon. OMA’s
latest realizations include: the Prada Epicenter store in New York and
two Guggenheim Museums in Las Vegas. Currently in construction are: the
new Netherlands embassy in Berlin, a concert hall in Porto, a Prada Epicenter
in Beverly Hills, a public library for Seattle and a campus center for
the IIT in Chicago. Beyond a strong engagement in the United States, OMA
has recently focused attention on Europe and Asia.
Central China TV architects
: OMA
China Buildings
Architecture
Competition
Modern Architects
Central China Television Headquarters
adjacent building : TVCC
CCTV headquarters jury member : architect Arata Isozaki
CCTV headquarters
jury member : critic Charles Jencks
Central China TV
shortlisted architect : Toyo Ito & Associates (with FCJZ of Beijing_
Central China TV context
: Beijing Architecture
World Skyscrapers
Partners-in-Charge: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren
Project Architects: Shohei Shigematsu, Adrianne Fisher, Erez Ella, David
Chacon, Anu Leinonen, Charles Berman, Hiromasa Shirai, Chris van Duijn,
Bruce Toman (DMJM)
Project Manager: Dongmei Yao
Team: Jia Bo (ECADI), Gabriela Bojalil, Catarina Canas, Holly Chacon,
Jane Chen (DMJM), Gaspard Estourgie, Lin Feng (ECADI), Yang Guang (ECADI),
John Hess (DMJM), Ling Ji (ECADI), Xu Jialong (ECADI), Abhijit Kapade,
Michel van der Kar, Peter Lee, Chen Li (ECADI), Stuart Maddocks, Xiang
Ming (ECADI), Joseph Monteleone, Cristina Murphy, Xu Nuo (ECADI), Daan
Ooievaar, Andre Schmidt, Torsten Schröeder, Zhang Sheng (ECADI),
Wenchian Shi, Faustina Tsai, Tian Tian Xu, Zhao Weiliang (ECADI), Dai
Wenwei (ECADI) Jiang Wenwei (ECADI), Jiang Xinhua (ECADI), Li Yao (ECADI),
Fan Yifei (ECADI), Dai Yiming (ECADI), Guo Yiming (ECADI), Sun Yu (ECADI),
Wu Zheng (ECADI), with Joao Bravo da Costa, Shangwen Chiu, Stephane Derveaux,
Xiaodong Liu, Manuel Shvartzberg; Interns: Antonio Branco, Max Burianek,
Melissa Dowler, Rodney Eggleston, Stefan Ell, Keren Englman, Joris Fach,
Antonis Karides, Suse Koch, Andreas Lyckefors, Tim O’Callaghan, Tae
Hoon Oh,, Florian Pucher, Max Schwitalla
Competition Team: Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, Shohei Shigematsu, Alain
Fouraux, Fernando Donis with Johannes Buchholz, Catarina Canas, Guillaume
Colboc, Erez Ella, Mamen Escorihuela, Adrianne Fisher, Sarah Gibson, Anu
Leinonen, Shiro Ogata, Tammo Prinz, Torsten Schröeder, Hiromasa Shirai,
L. E. Tsao, Victoria Willocks, Zhaohui Wu, Yimin Zhu
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