CCTV – TELEVISION CULTURAL CENTRE, CHINA, BEIJING, 2002
A Television Cultural Center open to the public, containing a theater, ballroom, cinemas, recording studios and exhibition facilities as well as a hotel.
By Hans Werlemann© All rights reserved
Against the strong architectural shape and definition of CCTV, the adjacent Television Cultural Centre establishes a more informal quality. The multiple functions required by the freely accessible public program – a theatre, digital cinemas, recording studios, press conference and exhibition space, and five-star hotel with ballroom, conference rooms, and spa – are stacked to form an accumulation of structurally independent volumes. A continuous skin encompasses this assemblage: starting from the ground up, the skin extends upwards to form the angular, sloping roof of the long podium, and then becomes the vertical facade of the tower, wrapping up over the top of the building and down the other side, defining the actual shape of the fundamentally shapeless building – a freeze frame of apparent instability.
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FACT SHEET

Project:
TVCC Television Cultural Centre

Status:
Competition: 1st prize 2002
Completion: 2010

Client:
China Central Television (CCTV)

Budget:
5 billion RMB (total cost incl. CCTV)

Location:
Beijing, China

Site:
20 hectares in new Central Business District

Program:
Total 575.000 m2
TVCC total 95,000m2: hotel 52,000m2, public facilities 23,000m2, parking 20,000m2
CCTV total 465,000m2: administration 75,000m2, program offices 65,000m2, news production 70,000m2, broadcasting 40,000m2, program production 120,000m2, staff facilities 30,000m2, parking 65,000m2
COLLABORATORS

Associate Architects and Engineers:
ECADI (East China Architecture & Design Institute), Shanghai

Structure, Services Fire, Security:
Arup, London/Hong Kong/Beijing

Project Principal:
Cecil Balmond

Project Director:
Rory McGowan

Project Director Beijing:
Michael Kwok

Project Manager Beijing:
Craig Gibbons

CCTV Structure - Lead:
Chris Carroll

Technical Adviser Beijing:
Goman Ho

Project Manager:
Alexis Lee

TVCC Structure - Lead:
Stuart Smith
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CREDITS

Partners in charge:
Ole Scheeren, Rem Koolhaas

Project Manager:
Dongmei Yao

Project Architects:
Charles Berman, David Chacon, Chris van Duijn, Erez Ella, Adrianne Fisher, Anu Leinonen, Andre Schmidt, Shohei Shigematsu, Hiromasa Shirai, Steven Smit

Team:
Gabriela Bojalil, Joao Bravo Da Costa, Catarina Canas, Holly Chacon, Dan Cheong, Stephane Derveaux, Keren Engelman, Gaspard Estourgie, Tieying Fang, Pei Feng, Sarah Gibson, Chris James, Abhijit Kapade, Michel van der Kar, Paul Kroese, Peter Lee, Xiaodong Liu, Stuard Maddox, Joseph Monteleone, Cristina Murphy, Shiro Ogata, Roberto Otero, Daan Ooievaar, Torsten Schroeder, Wenchian Shi, Kamfai Tai, Faustina Tsai, Jasmine Tsoi, Xinyuan Wang, Luke Willis, Victoria Willocks, You Wu, Tian Tian Xu, Dirk Zschunke;

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VISIT

TVCC and CCTV are located in Beijing’s new Central Business District. The construction site is currently closed to visitors.