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As part of Beijing's efforts to look good for the summer Olympics, its central TV station, CCTV, is getting brand new headquarters. It'll be the first of 300 buildings to be completed in the city's new Central Business District. The 5.9 million square foot building is actually a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections, making the building into a giant square tube instead of a traditional tower. Its designers—Rem Koolhaus, Ole Scheeren, and a team of international hot shots from OMA—made the facade an irregular grid to portray the crazy amount of TV work that goes down inside. Image by CCTV CCTV New Site main page
Habitrail-Style Office Tower to Dominate Beijing Skyline Later This Year
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8:20 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By LISA KATAYAMA
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All you need is wheel powered elevators and wall mounted water bottles instead of fountains.
I have seen multiple building connected by skyways (ie downtown Minneapolis/St.Paul) or large hospitals with multiple skyways called Habitrails, but never one build... but that sure looks like it..
That is by far one of the coolest looking buildings I have ever seen.
So where does the artificial gravity generator go? Damnit, If I want a single elevator to go the entire length of the tube, there had better be artifical gravity so I don't slam into a wall.
What do you mean there is no elevator going the entire length of the tube? What a gyp.
WANT MORE BUILDINGS SO I CAN PLAY 3D TETRIS!!!!
I've seen this being built and it really did strike me as being very innovative architecuture. Pretty cool, China.
What i find funny is the name of the Chinese government tv broadcaster. CCTV sounds like a "1984" scenerio where the governement is using CCTV (closed circuit TV) to watch over it's population.
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