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Gallery: Building Beijing's Miraculous CCTV Headquarters Tower

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CCTV Headquarters Tower Image 1

CCTV's new headquarters in Beijing wears its engineering on its sleeve. So complex is this 768-foot-tall anti-skyscrabper that the architects, the Netherlands-based Office of Metropolitan Architecture, chose to show off the structural seams for visual effect.

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The building is a continuous loop (resembling a twisted doughnut to some, "big shorts" to others), a shape that would normally be too stiff to stand up against the region's famously epic earthquakes.

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2 Comments

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TheScrump

11/20/09 at 9:24 pm

anti-skyscrabper? Who wrote this?

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StanAlarm

12/01/10 at 11:13 pm

There was a massive fire on the building a year ago which burned nearly to the top. There was a fatality reported and several people were hurt. The cause of fire was believed to be started by illegal fire crackers, but the Chinese authority blamed the fire on the architect instead.

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Stan
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