CCTV Headquarters in Beijing by OMA

CCTV Headquarters in Beijing by OMA
CCTV's new 553,000 m2 headquarters will be among the first of 300 towers to be constructed in Beijing's new Central Business District.

The total construction cost is estimated at 600 Million Euro.

The Project will be completed for the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

The CCTV headquarters will be one of the first European skyscrapers to be built in China.

As part of an international architectural competition organized by the Beijing International Tendering Co., the scheme presented by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was awarded the contract on December 20.

The OMA scheme was chosen from ten competitors, including Dominique Perrault from France and KF and SOM from the United States.

An international jury that included architect Arata Isozaki and critic Charles Jencks selected three teams for the second phase :

Toyo Ito & Associates in collaboration with FCJZ of Beijing, the East China Architecture and Design Institute, and OMA.

On the 10-hectare site in the new Central Business District in Beijing, the OMA proposal consolidates the program in an iconic configuration of two high-rise buildings:

The new CCTV headquarters, at a height of 230m and a floor area of 405,000m2, combines administration with news, broadcasting, studios and program production - the entire process of TV making - in a