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OMA´s CCTV facade completed

By David Basulto — Filed under: Offices , Public Facilities , Skyscrapers , , ,
 

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.

 

14 comments »

Hakeem says:

Does anyone knows how many floors does CCTV has??? I count more than 50!

Pd: David…nice trip!

 
# August 6, 2008 at 22:14
DJEB says:

Pretty ugly, but not near the mastery of uglyness that that jerk Daniel Libeskind designs.

 
# August 6, 2008 at 22:48
Thiefsie says:

Amazing piece of structure for humanity…

 
# August 7, 2008 at 02:07
Dan says:

“Amazing piece of structure for humanity” or icon for a government?

 
# August 8, 2008 at 14:23
Kwo says:

$1 billion was cost

 
# August 11, 2008 at 08:37
Thiefsie says:

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?

 
# August 12, 2008 at 20:02
Yanko says:

A masterpiece with no doubt

 
# October 11, 2008 at 13:33
Yanko says:

One more thing @DJEB there isn’t middle opinions for such buildings You just totally admire it or totally hate it, so….

 
# October 11, 2008 at 13:37
Keith says:

the design isnt that great actually, but its structure is crazy,heh heh,,masterpiece, of course

 
# November 4, 2008 at 14:21
Chicago G says:

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.

 
# December 4, 2008 at 11:17
arki says:

im very impress with cctv building design in Beijing but not in taipei performing arts theater in taiwan designed by OMA.

 
# February 8, 2009 at 11:18
Ye says:

It’s 49 storey (234 m) tall..

 
# February 26, 2009 at 05:04

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