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Shangri-la's Kerry Centre Hotel

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Made by durr-architect
Modern architecture in Beijing The new headquarters for China Central Television, OMA's largest project to date, combines the entire process of TV-making – administration, production, broadcasting – into a single loop of interconnected activity. Rising from a common platform accommodating production facilities, two towers – one dedicated to broadcasting, one to services, research, and education – lean towards each other and eventually merge in a dramatic, seemingly impossible cantilever. CCTV's distinctive loop aims to offer an alternative to the exhausted typology of the skyscraper. In spite of their potential to incubate new cultures, programs, and ways of life, most skyscrapers accommodate merely routine activity, arranged according to predictable patterns. Formally, their expressions of verticality have proven to stunt the imagination: as verticality soars, creativity crashes. Instead of competing in the hopeless race for ultimate height and style within a traditional two-dimensional tower 'soaring' skyward, CCTV proposes a truly three-dimensional experience, culminating in a canopy that symbolically embraces the entire city. CCTV consolidates all its operations in a continuous flow, allowing each worker to be permanently aware of her colleagues – a chain of interdependence that promotes solidarity rather than isolation, collaboration instead of opposition. The loop also facilitates an unprecedented degree of public access to the production of China's media: visitors will be admitted to a dedicated path circulating through the building, connecting all elements of the program and offering spectacular views from the multiple facades towards the CBD, the Forbidden City, and the rest of Beijing. Text: OMA Competition: 2002; Completion: 2010 Client: China Central Television (CCTV) Architect: OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, NL Site: 20 hectares in new Central Business District, Beijing, China Program: CCTV: total 473,000m2: administration 64,800m2, multi-purpose: 54,900m2, news broadcasting 65,000m2, broadcasting 31,800m2, production 105,400m2, loop 11,100m2, services (canteens, gym) 22,500m2, parking 59,700m2. Budget:5 billion RMB (€ 850 million) Tower 1: Height: 234m, 54 floors. Footprint: 40x60m,2,400m2 Tower 2: Height: 210m, 44 floors. Footprint: 40x52m, 2,000m2 Overhang bottom: 162m, 14 floors Overhang cantilever: 75m to the west, 67m to the south Base height: 45m, 9 floors, footprint 160x160m Basement: -18m, 4 floors


CCTV Building. Beijing, China
Made by Danny--Boy
The astonishingly complex 234m-high for of the CCTV Building is probably central Beijing's most distinctive chunk of modern architecture. From an engineering point of view, the CCTV Building's construction - a continuous loop running through horizontal and vertical planes, creating a quite unique addition to the Beijing skyline - is boldly ambitious. Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA, the builing is an audacious statement of modernity despite being dubbed 'Big Underpants' by Beijingers. Sadly, occupiers CCTV (China Central Television) are the very paragon of mediocrity, a state-controlled outfit with a passion for censorship. In February 2008, stray fireworks from CCTV's own Lantern Festival fireworks display sent the costly Television Cultural Center in the north of the complex up in flames, burinign for five hours with spectacular ferocity. CCTV famously censored its own reporting of the huge conflagration (Beijing netizens dryly noting that CCTV created one the year's biggest stories only not to cover it). Along with the Beijing Mandarin Oriental, a visitor's centre and theatre were also destroyed in the blaze. Big Underpants escaped unsigned. From Lonely Planet Beijing City Guide, 2010.


Television Cultural Center (TVCC) aka Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Made by thewamphyri
Beijing Television Cultural Center (aka Mandarin Oriental Hotel), Beijing China. Built 2004-2009, Height 159m (521 ft), Floors 34. (Via wikipedia:) At 8:27 pm on 9 February 2009, the entire building caught fire on the last day of the festivities of Chinese new year and was put out six hours later. A nearby unauthorised fireworks display caused the fire. The incident, and its coverage by Chinese state media, caused a furore in China. CCTV officials had authorised the powerful pyrotechnics, carried it out without the required permit from local government, and ignored repeated police warnings not to hold them. The authorities' attempts to limit damaging direct coverage of the blaze was criticised by citizens and the international press. When this picture was taken, this building and its companion the were both locked up behind 8ft razor wire topped fences. There was construction going on in the fenced area, but it was not quite clear what it in involved, although it appeared to be not related to the refurbishing of this building.


CCTV Tower - China Central Television Headquarters - 央视新大楼
Made by Meiguoxing
The most remarkable of China’s new architecture, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, China’s New Central television headquarters, aka Big Shorts or Big Underpants, twists the idea of a skyscraper quite literally into a 49-story-tall gravity-defying loop. More Great Photos of CCTV Tower at www.meiguoxing.com/Features/CCTV_Building.html


CCTV HQ 2009
Made by Jamie Barras
CCTV Headquarters Building (Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, Office of Metropolitan Architecture & East China Architecture & Design Institute, due for completion 2009), 3rd Ring Road (San Huan Zhong Lu) & Guanghua Lu, Chaoyang CBD, Beijing, China. Following the fire in the adjacent Television Cultural Center (TVCC) on 9 February 2009, the CCTV HQ building sits gathering dust behind rusting metal fencing.


charred mandarin
Made by Shreyans Bhansali
The Mandarin Oriental hotel building, to the right of the CCTV building, was burnt down by stray sparks from an illegal fireworks show set up by, I believe, CCTV employees to celebrate the Lunar New Year. www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/world/asia/10beijing.html - article has an embedded video of the building on fire Beijing, 21 April 2009


Rem Koolhaus' CCTV tower
Made by ericennotamm
Poster at the construciton site of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaus' CCTV building in the Central Business District of Beijing. For more info, check out my book, The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China or visit www.horsethatleaps.com.


CCTV building, Beijing
Made by thewamphyri
CCTV building, Beijing China. When this picture was taken, this building and its companion the were both locked up behind 8ft razor wire topped fences. There was construction going on inside the fenced area, but it was not quite clear what it involved, although it appeared to be unrelated to the refurbishing of the TVCC building.


Rem Koolhaus' CCTV tower
Made by ericennotamm
Construciton of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaus' CCTV building in the Central Business District of Beijing. For more info, check out my book, The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China or visit www.horsethatleaps.com.


CCTV context
Made by ChrisB
It's always interesting getting to see something in person and getting the whole picture about how an area really is - while you can see many photos of the CCTV building online, not many show the burned out Mandarin Oriental Hotel (right) or the original Mandarin Oriental Hotel (left).


CCTV Headquarters Building, Beijing
Made by Jamie Barras
CCTV Headquarters Building (Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, Office of Metropolitan Architecture & East China Architecture & Design Institute, due for completion 2009), 3rd Ring Road (San Huan Zhong Lu) & Guanghua Lu, Chaoyang, Beijing, China.


seat of the pants
Made by Shreyans Bhansali
The CCTV building in Beijing. Still under construction, and since the burning down of the Mandarin Oriental hotel building on the same site, I imagine it won't be open for a clear ground level view for a while. 21 April 2009


Sculptural TVCC wreckage
Made by niklausberger
The Rem Koolhaas/OMA designed Televison Cultural Center (TVCC), compnion to the famed CCTV burned during the spring moon festivities 2009. Left untouched for months, the wreck becomes more beautiful every day.


Long Distance Birds Nest
Made by China Chas
The Beijing Olympic Stadium (the Bird's Nest) is visible in the distance in this shot from a building in the CBD. In the foreground is a new block with a facade that seems to be made from jelly chunks.


Fortune Night
Made by China Chas
The top of Beijing's Fortune Plaza tower by night. My personal view of all these flashing lights is: just because we now have the technology to do this sort of thing doesn't mean we have to.


CCTV
Made by kymak
Having been sick for a few times in only 3 months, finally I understand why it's good to get off from office on time, at least once a while. CCTV Headquarter Building, Beijing. by OMA


Sun Sets Over Beijing
Made by China Chas
A very rare sight in Beijing - the sun is still powerful enough to burn out the sensor as it sets over the western mountains. At least, that's my excuse for not nailing the exposure.


Southeast View
Made by VotreX
One of the most exciting projects ever in the history of architecture - but yet on that day it seemed uncharacteristically quiet. As if the hype never really existed.


Big Beijing Buildings
Made by China Chas
Close-up of three of the most well-known buildings in Beijing's CBD: China World Trade Center Phase 3, the Kerry Centre, and the LG Towers.


CCTV 02
Made by Eva García Pascual
Headquarters of CCTV, the Chinese television network, by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.