GWR
04-08-08, 03:00 PM
Definitely another nominee for the Buttfuck Ugly Architecture Award:
China > Local News > Beijing
Tour de force architecture in the newest 'old city'
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times
Monday, August 4, 2008
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20080804/p12d.jpg
[Photo: China Post - Ole Scheeren, architect with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), stands in front of the CCTV Tower, under construction in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 5. The CCTV Tower will house China’s state-run television network. (Bloomberg News)]
BEIJING -- Though it won't be finished for another year or so, the China Central Television headquarters, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture, is already a jaw-dropping sight.
The CCTV skyscraper consists of two leaning towers, each 51 stories high, connected by a pair of cantilevered arms. Its dark-glass exterior is wrapped in steel webbing that thickens where the structure requires bracing and melts away where it needs less.
Stunt climbers may scale Renzo Piano's New York Times tower, but CCTV does them one better. The building is itself a daredevil -- a massive contortionist, an elephant on a wire. As an example of design prowess in the way it turns assumptions about skyscrapers inside out, and as a sublime presence on the smoggy Beijing skyline -- the tower is a tour de force.
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http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/local%20news/beijing/2008/08/04/168514/Tour-de.htm
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/chinese_television/OMA.jpg
[Visualization: http://www.arcspace.com - CCTV's new 550,000 square meter headquarters, to be completed for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, will be among the first of 300 towers to be constructed in Beijing's new Central Business District.]
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/chinese_television/
Competition winner
OMA
New Headquarters
Central Chinese Television CCTV
Beijing, China
As part of an international architectural competition organized by the Beijing International Tendering Co., the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was awarded the contract on December 20, 2002.
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 230 meter and a floor area of about 400,000 square meters, 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 115,000 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.
January 6, 2002
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/chinese_television/
China > Local News > Beijing
Tour de force architecture in the newest 'old city'
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times
Monday, August 4, 2008
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20080804/p12d.jpg
[Photo: China Post - Ole Scheeren, architect with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), stands in front of the CCTV Tower, under construction in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 5. The CCTV Tower will house China’s state-run television network. (Bloomberg News)]
BEIJING -- Though it won't be finished for another year or so, the China Central Television headquarters, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture, is already a jaw-dropping sight.
The CCTV skyscraper consists of two leaning towers, each 51 stories high, connected by a pair of cantilevered arms. Its dark-glass exterior is wrapped in steel webbing that thickens where the structure requires bracing and melts away where it needs less.
Stunt climbers may scale Renzo Piano's New York Times tower, but CCTV does them one better. The building is itself a daredevil -- a massive contortionist, an elephant on a wire. As an example of design prowess in the way it turns assumptions about skyscrapers inside out, and as a sublime presence on the smoggy Beijing skyline -- the tower is a tour de force.
..........
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/local%20news/beijing/2008/08/04/168514/Tour-de.htm
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/chinese_television/OMA.jpg
[Visualization: http://www.arcspace.com - CCTV's new 550,000 square meter headquarters, to be completed for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, will be among the first of 300 towers to be constructed in Beijing's new Central Business District.]
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/chinese_television/
Competition winner
OMA
New Headquarters
Central Chinese Television CCTV
Beijing, China
As part of an international architectural competition organized by the Beijing International Tendering Co., the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was awarded the contract on December 20, 2002.
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 230 meter and a floor area of about 400,000 square meters, 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 115,000 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.
January 6, 2002
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/chinese_television/