http://www.archrecord.construction.com/china/1_projects/images/cctv-1.jpg
http://www.archrecord.construction.com/china/1_projects/images/cctv-3.jpg
http://www.archrecord.construction.com/china/1_projects/images/cctv-5.jpg
what u think

http://www.archrecord.construction.com/china/1_projects/images/cctv-5.jpg
what u think
If they truly can get it to display like that, it would be truly awesome. Very different from the traditional approach of simply sticking a giant TV screen on the side of a building.

I would replace the word "News" with 新闻 though. Why have English words on a Chinese building for a Chinese business organization.

If they truly can get it to display like that, it would be truly awesome. Very different from the traditional approach of simply sticking a giant TV screen on the side of a building.

I would replace the word "News" with 新闻 though. Why have English words on a Chinese building for a Chinese business organization.
how people gonna see it like that??

how people gonna see it like that??
The building is very tall. Of course you're going to tilt your head a little in order to see it, but you'd do the same with the traditional approach of slapping a large TV screen on the side of the building.

This is an absolutely amazing building, incredible architecture and not less incredible engineering. I wish to see it real :eek:

Is there any info or photos about the construction? At Emporis it's listed as U/C.

As for the "News", they could make both Chinese and English versions.

This is an absolutely amazing building, incredible architecture and not less incredible engineering. I wish to see it real :eek:

Is there any info or photos about the construction? At Emporis it's listed as U/C.

As for the "News", they could make both Chinese and English versions.
yes..u can log on to http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/index_flash.htm u will find the information u need..

Amazing building. Its definately going to be a landmark.

any construction news + pictures ?
thnx

any construction news + pictures ?
thnx

Check out the Beijing Construction Thread! Ill guide you inn, information and a lot of photos here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=2134236&postcount=84).

Concerning the construction progress. The building started construction last year, but is still in its early stage of construction. A image from december 2004 showed only some ground construction, nothing more. But i guess we'll see some progress later again. :)

thank you Christian, it would be nice if someone posted some construction-pictures, this building deserves it.

thank you Christian, it would be nice if someone posted some construction-pictures, this building deserves it.

Yes, gotta ask some forumers from Beijing then. :) I had a construction image from march, but the image has been removed from its adress so i can't see it anymore.

Amazing!

Breathtaking.....:eek:

Thats a pretty amazingly radical design. CCTV does some good television and now their taste in architecture is just as good. Super :D

very modern. :)

So the Formal start was announced in february for may.
Any more info?
This project deserves some construction pictures. Please Post them, Beijing Forumers!!

source: QIANLON.COM - Beijing Portal (http://www.beijingportal.com.cn/7838/2005/02/23/1820@2523240.htm)

CCTV Construction Starts in May

Beijing Portal 2005-02-23 09:20:23


Construction on the new China Central Television or CCTV building will formally start on May 8.

The new headquarters for China's national broadcaster will cost nearly 4.7 billion yuan, or 570 million USD.

The new building, located in Bejing's central business area CBD, by the east Third Ring Road, will cover a total of 20 hectares.

The main building will be over 230 meters high, 52 floors, and will use the latest building technology.

The project is expected to be completed at the beginning of 2009.

Editor Li Qing

实在是讨厌赵忠祥

wow that's a really odd looking building! Nice design and hope that thing doesn't fall backwards if it ever was built, it looks top heavy! :P

http://www.sixseven.org/beijing/galven/City%20Planning%20-%20CCTV%20Tower.JPG

I really hope to see progress of its construction...its such an iconic project

That's one kickass tower;)

is this the Construction - site ?? (http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/japanese/2maga/au/aus/cctv/pageview/24-25/24-25.html)

Architecture and Urbanism: July 2005 Special Issue (http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/2maga/au/aus/cctv/cctv.html) has this "animation (in flash) (http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/2maga/au/aus/cctv/pageview/pageview.html)"

Also found
Television Cultural Center, Hotel and Conference Facility (TVCC) and
China Central Television Headquarters (CCTV)
on the site of FRONT (http://www.frontinc.com/): Front is an Architectural Design and Structural Engineering practice specializing in Facade Consulting

loads of images (in flash)

please show us some construction pics!

Wow..is inccredible!!! China is........wow!!!!!

magnificent!!!
i luv this building. especially the screen. but i doubt ppl will watch. cctv1 is boring to death.
anyone have any info on the location of this building?
when is this due complete?

i’m afraid such revolutionary building will become the experiment of the foreign designers！still，i‘m can’t wait to see the day it become to reality

Finally!

uploaded by a China Chas on 17th of august.

source: CCTV Site on Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/chaspope/34804091/)

http://static.flickr.com/23/34804091_5633ee68df.jpg?v=0

The view from my office in Beijing: looking out over the Third Ring Road and Central Business District. The large building site opposite is for the new CCTV (China Central Television) building, which I have been helping to design.

Wow nice update :)

thanks :cheers:

reminds me of...........
Prada Omotesando...........

Finally!

uploaded by a China Chas on 17th of august.

source: CCTV Site on Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/chaspope/34804091/)

http://static.flickr.com/23/34804091_5633ee68df.jpg?v=0

The view from my office in Beijing: looking out over the Third Ring Road and Central Business District. The large building site opposite is for the new CCTV (China Central Television) building, which I have been helping to design.
You've been helping to design this building?! Wow, cool. I have to congratulate you and the rest of the team on the design, I can't wait to see this one rise. I'll be visiting China sometime next summer, I intend to go to Beijing and when there I'll have to take a look at this one, obviously won't be finished by then but should still look good.

@ Andrew
NO ! not me, China Chas (he posted the picture and I quoted his picture & comments)

i wonder wat technology they are gonna use to balance the weight of the suspeded structure......

Beijing’s CCTV building starts to take its rather unusual shape

Release date: 07/05/2003


Arup’s work on the design of the new headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing, China is continuing apace. The design team is setting out detailed solutions to the engineering challenges posed by the unique shape of the building, which will break all the rules in the Chinese design codes.

The headquarters building is one of two high-rise buildings forming the focal point of a 10-hectare site in the new Central Business District (CBD) in Beijing. The CCTV headquarters building, at a height of 230m and a floor area of about 400,000m2, combines space for administration, news, broadcasting, studios and program production – encompassing the entire process of TV making.

Arup, who is providing engineering design services for structures, building services and security for the new building, is sub-consultant to the Office for Metroplitan Architecture (OMA) led by Rem Koolhaas, which was awarded the design contract on 20 December 2002 following an international architectural design competition.

The biggest challenge for the Arup engineers is the unique structural form of the CCTV building. The building is formed by two leaning towers, which are bent 90º at the top and bottom to meet forming a continuous ‘tube’. An expressed diagrid system is adopted on the external faces of the building to provide a tube structure in resisting both gravity and lateral loads, where the pattern of diagonals reflects the distribution of forces in the tube surface.

Since the structural design will necessarily break the Chinese design codes, apart from the mandatory seismic requirements for Beijing buildings which need a resistance to intensity 8 with peak ground acceleration of 0.2g, the design will be subject to the review and approval by a Chinese Experts Review Panel to which Arup will present a performance based design approach.

The project is being executed by a combined Arup team from East Asia and Europe Divisions - the China team being led by Michael Kwok, Craig Gibbons, Alexis Lee, Goman Ho and Kenneth Sin and the London team by Cecil Balmond, Rory McGowan, Chris Carroll, Alistair Guthrie and Iain Lyall. The ARUP and OMA Design Teams are mainly based in Europe in the initial design stages and will move to Beijing in the latter stages.

The project, the estimated construction cost of which is an estimated US$600m, is scheduled be completed in time for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The CCTV headquarters building is one of a number of Beijing 2008 projects with which Arup is currently involved, including the design of the flagship Olympic stadium by ArupSport with Herzog & de Meuron Architekten and the China Architecture Design & Research Group.

The new CCTV building has been full of controversy since its design released. The main problem is its super high cost. The construction date ha been postponed many time so it won't be done before 2008 Beijing Olympic games.
Here's some pictures from its official web site: http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/en/project_info.htm
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/1.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/2.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/3.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/4.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/5.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/6.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/7.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/8.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/9.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/10.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/11.jpg
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/12.jpg

wanna see another update! :D

This builing is the most expensive in the wold.10 hundreds million dollar.

now CCTV will have most expensive building and it is such amazing one, just hope they can produce good program in the future to match their office.

amazing tower, the screen idea is kick ass

:okay:

I can't wait to see this finished. Not too many updates on this for some reason. :(

This is a real Engineering Challege. Is there anyone living in the area that can get a up to date Photo of the Construction Site?

Amazing building!

is the building under construction yet??

is the building under construction yet??

Yep, its under construction! The construction site is really huge.

http://i3.tinypic.com/vpyejl.jpg
Image from the CCTV site. Image taken by Tom_Green. I don't know when he took them, but they are taken recently.

The pics are only one week old.

Here is a better pic of the site.
http://i3.tinypic.com/vqqubk.jpg

The site in august 2005
http://static.flickr.com/23/34804091_5633ee68df.jpg?v=0

great job, tom. You are the only source in this forum for this mega building!

Great pics tom! :okay:

The site is huge, but they are building it fast!

I can see 2 buildings in this pic. The one in the corner is growing fast while the other one is not that fast. Can sb tell me what they are respectively? thanks!

corner: TVCC
otherone: CCTV

TVCC?

TVCC?

TVCC is the second building in the project, CCTV and TVCC will be nabours, each with crazy designes. TVCC is short for Television Cultural Centre, and the building is 159m/ 31 floors tall. It will be completed in 2008, same time as CCTV is completed. The building will be a cultural center and a hotel.

You can see TVCC behind CCTV.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/CCTVHeadquarters3.jpg

thanks, Qazaq!

source: DesignOnLine (http://dolcn.com)

http://dolcn.com/data/up2/65607l5.jpg

this building was scolded by chinese people, they shout out loudly " money should put in west eare for education, and reduce poverty, how can goverment put huge money on a luxary building?"
9 in 10 chinese have this opinion. but i love this building, i love it. it's the most brillant ,most great building in china.

The spot doesn't look like the right one from the sign beside the construction place.

I can see why rem koolhaas pick this one over the ground zero in NY. Amazing, It will be the "starchitecture" of BJ in the future, alone with the water cube and the bird nest.

this building was scolded by chinese people, they shout out loudly " money should put in west eare for education, and reduce poverty, how can goverment put huge money on a luxary building?"
9 in 10 chinese have this opinion. but i love this building, i love it. it's the most brillant ,most great building in china.



" money should put in west eare for education, and reduce poverty, how can goverment put huge money on a luxary building?"

i believe this is shit. We need more job first.

now CCTV will have most expensive building and it is such amazing one, just hope they can produce good program in the future to match their office.

Don't hold your breath!

http://www.danwei.org/tv/selfcensorship_the_2000_pound.php

晕有毛病的又来了.

Don't hold your breath!

http://www.danwei.org/tv/selfcensorship_the_2000_pound.php

whatever they say, i still think china should be pround of this project. Not a lot of country in this world has the courage building something like this. Well deserved.

晕有毛病的又来了.

So what! I like to complain about some things.

^^


Never mind. From your avatar, I realize the halloween holiday is coming!;)

^^


Never mind. From your avatar, I realize the halloween holiday is coming!

any up date?

Pls Ask deangels to take several pictures for you. I am not in Beijing :(

Some pcitures taken randomly on my Beijing trip on 10/24/2006. CCTV is the 2nd building under construction in the 1st picture. The front one is also one of the CCTV towers being built for 2008 Olympics.

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-2.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-1.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-9.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-8.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-7.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-6.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-5.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-4.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-10.jpg

http://www.davidwei.com/BJ-CCTV/cctv-3.jpg2

what should i say about it? unexpected project full of great fancy i have heard just now.i am looking forward to completement.it must be the iconic project

there are a great deal of difficulties if you wanna have some originality and attractions among those tall building.but cctv make it that it fills with imagination i will never heard from now on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/CCTVHeadquarters2x.jpg


Just wondered if anyone can give me a link to the koolhaus practice website as I cant seem to find it. I'm a third year modelmaking degree student from the arts institute in England, I'm thinking of building CCTV for my Final Major - Also does anyone know how hard it'd be to get hold of the plans?

Jonathan

???

http://archrecord.construction.com/china/1_projects/CCTV.asp

the site is www.oma.nl Office for Metropolitan architecture

WOOOOOOOOOOOW :applause:

I REALLY LIKE THIS PROJECT:bow: :applause:

http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/images/project/2.jpg

I'm looking forward to seeing this completed.

China became the world to construct the masters experiment field,these constructions were only a Chinese time product, this kind ofplan if could not be selected in present this time.

Any update of this project ?

Any update of this project ?

please check this thread:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=179084&page=38

:banana:

(beijingupdates.com)

http://www.beijingupdates.com/forum/UploadFile/2008-5/200852523244015524.jpg

http://www.beijingupdates.com/forum/UploadFile/2008-5/200852523253698534.jpg

http://www.beijingupdates.com/forum/UploadFile/2008-5/200852523261375883.jpg

I can see it through the window:)

Hi,

I'm not sure if anyone here can help me, but I wondering where the best thread to ask about the CCTV building would be? I'm trying to find a plan and section of the building - even a very simple one. Does anyone know if there's one anywhere on Skyscrapercity, which thread would be the best place, or if there's a magazine that has featured these drawings?

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

^^I'm sure you can find what you want in between pages of this thread:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=703076&highlight=cctv