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CCTV Headquarters

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    1. Schindlers Restaurant & Bar – CCTV Headquarters loop from Jianwai

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    August 10, 2023

    There’s no missing the hulking silver-gray headquarters of China Central Television, which earned its nickname “big pants” because it looks like a pair of pants. Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA, the $900 million building is 51 stories and soars 767 feet above Beijing’s central business district. The characteristic “pants” shape is achieved by the building’s two leaning towers meeting at a perpendicular cantilever “loop” 246 feet above the ground, mimicking the activities within. The building contains all of CCTV’s once-scattered offices, television studios, broadcasting, and production facilities. According to OMA, one tower houses offices and editing areas and the other news broadcasting with administration, which oversee the process of television-making, joining at the top. The building is off-limits to visitors, but admirers can get up-close and personal exterior views by exiting the Jintaixizhao subway station and glimpse the inside by watching the nightly news.

    (tripsavvy.com/amazing-buildings-in-beijing-5072766)

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