OMA´s CCTV facade completed
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Aug 2008
By David Basulto [tricky] — Filed under: Offices , Public Facilities , Skyscrapers , Arup, Beijing, OMA
It’s not a rendering but an actual photo of the completed facade of the CCTV Building by OMA in Beijing. The visible face of this iconic building was finished just in time for the olympics, after 6 years of hard work between OMA, ARUP and chinese partners ECADI.
Quite impressive, isn’t it? Hopefully the next pictures we publish with the CCTV finished will be taken by me.
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Does anyone knows how many floors does CCTV has??? I count more than 50!
Pd: David…nice trip!
Pretty ugly, but not near the mastery of uglyness that that jerk Daniel Libeskind designs.
Amazing piece of structure for humanity…
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Less of an icon than the statue of liberty and no less important than say the eiffel tower or petronas towers in years to come?
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A masterpiece with no doubt
One more thing @DJEB there isn’t middle opinions for such buildings You just totally admire it or totally hate it, so….
the design isnt that great actually, but its structure is crazy,heh heh,,masterpiece, of course
it is really more of a politcal outcome, the entire competition and design process…..OMA hit the ball by creating such an abnormal, eye-teasing structure in the urban context, when the goverment just needs such an image politically.
im very impress with cctv building design in Beijing but not in taipei performing arts theater in taiwan designed by OMA.
It’s 49 storey (234 m) tall..
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