China Central Television Tower

CCTV Headquarters –Construction Process

Literature Review

Introduction

China Central Television Tower, one of the Beijing’s more modern wonders is said to be the tallest building by far in the city. CCTV observation deck lies at an outstanding 238 meters, with a 44 storey skyscraper within the central business district of Beijing, and has an antenna tailing for 405 metres (Ying, 2012). As stated from the name CCTV, it hosts the broadcasting equipment; moreover, it provides an observation deck that provides an incredible view of the Beijing city. The building is a three-dimensional loop cranked 234m tall with an unusual shape, made of two leaning towers that have a bent of 900 at the upper and lower sections forming tube that is continuous. CCTV construction was one the architectural challenges that was achieved by architects Ole Scheeren and Rem Koolhaas of OMA, since it was erected in a zone considered as seismic (Xue, 2006). The one and half building is built in three buildings then joined to form one and half structure named the CCTV, which has become the Economic hub in china in that it had to use highest labor for the accomplishment of the project by using 7000 trucks operating 24-hr schedule.

Location

This mega structure is erected at the foot of east of Beijing third ring road, Guanghua road, china, which occupies a plot of approximately 20- hectares at the CBD of the china Chaoyang. Construction of the CCTV was part of the media park that was aimed at developing a public entertainment landscape for both production studios and shooting outdoors extension of the CBD (Keith, M., et al., 2013).

Figure 1: CCTV headquarters (Arup, 2010)

Sustainability

a. Economic

On completion of the construction, the building...

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