CCTV Headquarters

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The CCTV Headquarters is a skyscraper that is currently under construction in Beijing, China. The building will be the new headquarters of China Central Television. Groundbreaking took place on September 22, 2004. It is planned to be completed in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren are the designers of the building. The building will stand at 230 meters or 755 feet tall.

[edit] Background

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture won the contract from the Beijing International Tendering Co. to construct the CCTV Headquarters and the Television Cultural Center by its side on December 20, 2002. CCTV Headquarters, when completed, is slated to be among the first of 300 new towers in the new Beijing Central Business District. It is to consist of a design of a non-traditional, continuous loop in which administration, news, broadcasting, and program production will all take place.

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