CCTV Headquarters
中国中央电视台新总部大楼
East Third Ring Road & Guanghua Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing BJ China
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| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 2005 | | Finished | 2009 | | Floor Count | 51 | | Basement Floors | 3 | | Floor Area | 389,079 m² |
|  | | Building Uses | | - office | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | - cantilever | | - hole | | Architectural Style | | - modern | | - structural expressionism | | - futurism | | Materials | | - glass | | - steel | | - concrete, reinforced |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Roof | | 768 ft | | | | | | | | | | Lower roof | | 637 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
• Architects: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co. Ltd., Rem Koolhaus, Ole Scheeren.
• Cost Managers: Davis Langdon & Seah International.
• Constructor: China State Construction and Engineering Corporation, Front, Inc.
• Others: Arup Fire, Arup Security Consulting, Ove Arup & Partners, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc., Sandy Brown Associates LLP.
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• The structure speech is as of two towers, 45 and 51 stories each, connected together above the 37th floor and below the 10th floor, like a square hole donnut. The highest part is naturally the 51 storeys one.
• The podium, actually, bends in the opposite direction from the upper link, making a structure in balance and like inclinated at glassy pillars. This inclination is of 6° in both closing those pillars, supported by braced steel tubes at the grid's perimeter.
• There is no movement joints in building and is one of the world's largest single structural systems.
• An estimation of less than 20% steel was used comparing for which in a single tower with the same gross floor area.
• Its use is mainly seen for the Television channels' offices and headquarters in area.
• Residents of city nicknamed it as the "giant shorts".
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