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TVCC, Beijing Building, Image, Architect, Fire, Design, News, Architecture
Television Cultural Center, Beijing : Information + Images
Television Cultural Centre Beijing : OMA
TVCC Fire News
9 Feb 2009
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture has learned that there has
been a serious fire at the Television Cultural Centre (TVCC), the
building adjacent to the headquarters of China Central Television
(CCTV).
The TVCC building was due to open in mid-May and contained a hotel,
a theatre and several studios.
As we learn more about this tragedy, we will advise further.
Previous 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.
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Television
Cultural Center Beijing architects : OMA
Beijing Buildings
TVCC context : Central China TV, also
by OMA
Television Cultural Center context :
Beijing Architecture
Rem Koolhaas
Buildings by this architect
Singapore Tower
Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Prada Transformer Korea
Taipei Performing
Arts Centre
Prada New York
Waterfront City Dubai
Hamburg Science Centre
One Madison Park

World Architecture : e-architect
- key buildings across the globe
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TVCC Beijing : page - adrian welch / isabelle
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