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The CCTV Headquarters is a 51-floor skyscraper formed out of a pair of conjoined towers that sits on the East Third Ring Road, Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business District (CBD) and serves as the headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV).
The CCTV Headquarters is now based in Chaoyang District, designed by Rem Koolhaas in late 2009. A race to the top of the tower is held annually with two laps of the base followed by a climb of the 1,484 steps leading up to the observation deck.
East gate of CMG headquarters with the sign of CMG and the former logo of CCTV. The China Media Group Headquarters is a 112 m (367 ft), 27-story-tall office tower and television complex at 11 Fuxin Road in Haidian, Beijing, China. Construction began in 1983 and was completed in 1986 with the official opening in 1987.
Another famous project in the city is the 234 m (768 ft), 51-storey CCTV Headquarters building, nicknamed "Big Shorts". [9] [10] [11] The skyscraper is not a traditional tower, but a continuous loop of five horizontal and vertical sections, creating an irregular grid on the building’s facade with an open center.
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. It accommodates visitors and guests, and will be freely accessible to the public.
CCTV Building may refer to: China Media Group Headquarters , the old CCTV headquarters and now served as the headquarters for China Media Group on Fuxing Road, Beijing CCTV Headquarters (CMG Office Block at Guanghua Road), the new CCTV headquarters on Guanghua Road, Beijing
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Immediately after the fire, seventeen people were detained, including the head of construction of the CCTV headquarters site, three additional CCTV staffers, the driver who transported the fireworks, four persons who helped guide the shipment to evade police checkpoints, and eight employees of the fireworks company who set off the display. [21]