32 East Third Ring Middle Road, Beijing CBD, Chaoyang District Beijing BJ China http://www.cctv.com
Status:
built
Construction Dates
Began
2005
Finished
2009
Floor Count
51
Basement Floors
3
Building Uses
- office
Structural Types
- highrise
- cantilever
- hole
- landing pad
Heights
Value
Source / Comments
Spire
779 ft
CVU Skyscraper Center
Helicopter landing pad
Roof
768 ft
CVU Skyscraper Center
Top floor
702 ft
CVU Skyscraper Center
Lower roof
637 ft
Unconfirmed
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Description Architects: • Office for Metropolitan Architecture - oma.eu • East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co. Ltd.
Developer: China International Television Corporation
• 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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