CCTV Headquarters

It stands at 234 metres (768 ft) tall and has 54 floors. The main building is not a traditional tower, but a loop of six horizontal and vertical sections covering 473,000 square metres (about 5 million square feet) of floor space, creating an irregular grid on the building s facade with an open center. Because of its radical shape, it s said the taxi driver first came up its nickname dà kùchǎ (大裤衩) The building was built in two buildings that were joined to became one building December 26, 2007.

Administration, news, broadcasting, and program production offices and studios are all contained inside. Coordinates: 39°54′54″N 116°27′27″E / 39.915°N 116.4575°E / 39.915; 116.4575 . Mandarin Oriental Hotel was destroyed and one fire fighter was killed .In October 25 2009, scaffolds was set up in the front gate of TVCC which indicated the renovation of the building has began. Dangerously damaged tower delays opening of Mandarin Oriental Hotel indefinitely. The Office for Metropolitan Architecture won the contract from the Beijing International Tendering Co.

It was to have the Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel, a visitor s center, a large public theatre, 2 recording studios with 3 audio control rooms, a digital cinema and 2 screening rooms. The construction of the building is considered to be a structural challenge, especially because it is in a seismic zone.

The CCTV Headquarters is a skyscraper in the Beijing Central Business District. The building is the headquarters of China Central Television.

Groundbreaking took place on September 22, 2004 and the building s facade was completed in Jun 2008. The 520 ft.

Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA were the architects in charge for the building, while Arup provided the complex engineering design. In order not to lock in structural differentials this connection was planned to be completed in the early moring when the steel in the two towers cooled to the same temperature. An adjacent building in the complex, the Television Cultural Center, caught on fire, ignited by fireworks on Lantern Festival day, February 9, 2009, before the building s scheduled completion in May 2009.

It is among the first of 300 new towers in the new Beijing CBD. to construct the CCTV Headquarters and the Television Cultural Center by its side on December 20, 2002.