Info from Office for
Metropolitan Architecture:
TVCC
Against the strong architectural shape and definition of the CCTV building,
TVCC establishes a more informal quality: all functions required by the
program brief are assembled in a loose and seemingly random manner. –
volumes joined, stacked and piled form a loose and penetrable accumulation
of public programs. A skin wrapped around this assemblage draws a silhouette
and defines the actual shape of the fundamentally shapeless building –
a freeze of apparent instability.
On the ground, the continuous interstitial space between the floating
program boxes establishes a public lobby and articulates a continuity
of the surrounding landscape with the inside of the building- blurring
boundaries between the interior and exterior and inscribing the building
into the flows of the public on the site.
The Television Cultural Center inhabits the base of the building, including
a 1500 seat theatre, audio studios, digital cinemas, a ballroom, exhibition
space, news release hall, AV rooms and digital transmission rooms.
The Hotel is located in the tower of the TVCC building. Its rooms articulate
the organic of the structure by pushing each volume in and out against
the southern façade plane of the tower, creating a pixilated relief
of individual sleeping cells facing CCTV and the CBD. Guests arrive at
the main entrance from the drop-off on the east side of the building and
ascend to the main lobby on the fifth floor via shuttle elevators. The
lobby accommodates a generous check-in area as well as restaurants, bars,
a lounge, and a series of shopping facilities. Direct access is given
to the swimming pool and spa, as well as other public functions such as
the conference center suspended in one of the boxes below the hotel lobby.
The 300 hotel rooms on both south and north side of the tower enclose
a 100 m tall atrium. The top of the building offers spectaculair views
from two restaurants and a sky bar.
Television Cultural Center
Beijing architects : OMA
China Buildings
World Architects
TVCC context : Central
China TV, also by OMA
Television Cultural Center
context : Beijing Architecture
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TVCC Beijing : page - adrian
welch / isabelle lomholt