CCTV Headquarters / OMA

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  • Architects: OMA
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  473000
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  KEIM, Erco, iGuzzini, Baosteel, Beijing Jangho, CSG, Ispert, Jiang Su Huning, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic, Shanghai Gate, Soprema, Thorn, Yingliang Stone
CCTV Headquarters / OMA - Exterior Photography, Cityscape
Courtesy of OMA

Text description provided by the architects. This past wednesday, OMA participated in the official construction completion ceremony for the China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters in Beijing, which will start to be used later this year. Designed by OMA as a reinvention of the skyscraper as a loop, construction on the building began in 2004. At approximately 473, 000m2, CCTV – accommodating TV studios, offices, broadcasting and production facilities – is OMA’s largest ever project and its first major building in China.

CCTV Headquarters / OMA - Exterior Photography
Courtesy of OMA

CCTV defies the skyscraper’s typical quest for ultimate height. Rising from a common platform, two towers lean towards each other and eventually merge in a perpendicular, 75- metre cantilever. The design combines the entire process of TV-making – formerly scattered in various locations across the city – into a loop of interconnected activities.

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The structure of the CCTV Headquarters, and the forces at work within it, is visible on its façade: a web of diagonals that becomes dense in areas of greater stress, looser and more open in areas requiring less support. The façade itself becomes a visual manifestation of the building’s structure.

CCTV Headquarters / OMA - Exterior Photography
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CCTV Headquarters / OMA - Exterior Photography, Facade
Courtesy of OMA

The CCTV project was led by OMA / Rem Koolhaas, former OMA partner Ole Scheeren (until 2010), OMA partner David Gianotten and project manager Dongmei Yao in close collaboration with partners Shohei Shigematsu, Ellen van Loon and Victor van der Chijs. The design team consisted of project architects Anu Leinonen, Charles Berman and Adrianne Fisher together with a team of over 100 architects from OMA.

CCTV Headquarters / OMA - Interior Photography
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CCTV Headquarters / OMA - Exterior Photography, Windows, Cityscape
Courtesy of OMA

The structural and MEP design was provided by Cecil Balmond and Arup, while ECADI (East China Architectural Design & Research Institute) functioned as the Local Design Institute. Design Consultants included Front INC, Inside/Outside, DHV, DMJMH+N, Lerch Bates & Associates, LPA, Sandy Brown Associates and Romano Gatland NY.

CCTV Headquarters / OMA - Exterior Photography, Cityscape
Courtesy of OMA

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Address:China, Beijing, Dongcheng, 天下第一城 邮政编码: 100006

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Cite: "CCTV Headquarters / OMA" 21 May 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/236175/cctv-headquarters-oma> ISSN 0719-8884

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