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Monday, February 7, 2011

Awesome architecture 1

Chinese Central Television building

The Chinese Central Television Building is a loop of six horizontal and vertical buildings covering 473,000 square meters of floor space. The structure is 234 meters tall and has 54 floors. 
The design is by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, of OMA the world’s most renowned architects and the multifaceted engineering skills are those of Arup. 
Meeting seismic requirements the two-building structure is connected with meticulous expertise timing it for early morning when there were no temperature differences. The buildings house production studios, filming areas both indoor and outdoors, media park and public entertainment facilities.
The construction commenced in 2004 and completed on 26 December 2007. 


article from: all-most.com / pic from: arcspace.com

Isn't it a pretty awesome building?

So long
Toto

30 comments:

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  2. really nice building
    want to see it live!

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  3. Amazing. I was looking at doing some work experience at ARUP.

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  4. It's almost Escher-esque, or is that just me? I like it!

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  5. we were told in class it looks like the legs of someone sitting on the crapper but i still think it's awesome architecutre

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  6. That's a pretty awesome building if I've ever seen one. Following.

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  7. This article reminds me of George Costanza from Seinfeld. :3

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  8. i like the one world trade center currently being built in nyc

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  10. Thanks for increasing my general knowledge bro. followed.

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  11. architecture is an interesting mix of science meeting art, this looks so amazing you dont realize the engineering behind making it work.

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  12. I like it! following and supporting.

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  13. amazing bulding you can see like it in Dubai and much amazing.

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  14. wow the U.S. needs buildings like that!!!

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  15. Beautiful building!
    Greetings from Greece!

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  16. Wow, that is some building!!!

    Thanks for the comment on the blog...but....I already follow you! Heeehee!! xoxox

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  17. this building is awesome! I would love to go inside it.

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  18. That's pretty damn spiffy! I wonder if it sways at all. I would love to see something like that in Detroit!

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  19. It's ugly, the chinese suck, like amanda

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  20. cool stuff

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