OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters by Ole Scheeren
and Rem Koolhaas
Architecture and Design Galleries
November 15, 2006–February 26, 2007
This exhibition presents one of the most innovative architecture
projects under construction today. Scheduled to open for the Beijing
Olympics in 2008, the complex, which comprises three buildings and a
media park situated on a site east of Beijing's Forbidden City, embodies
a proposal for social and urban change through a rethinking of the tall
building. CCTV is a private building that will have a uniquely public
Visitor's Loop, while its mirror image—TVCC, or the Television Cultural
Center—is a public structure housing a state-of-the-art broadcasting
theater, cultural facilities, and a five-star hotel.
The international architectural partnership Office of Metropolitan
Architecture (OMA) won the competition for its design in 2002, and the
project broke ground in 2004, with OMA partner Ole Scheeren leading its
design and execution. The immersive installation explores the project's
internal complexity and richness, its integration of public and private
uses, and its structural innovation through an array of graphics,
renderings, and explanatory texts as well as large- and small-scale
models,many of them presented publicly here for the first time. A
selection of architectural drawings from MoMA's collection will situate
the project as one of the most visionary undertakings in the history of
modern architecture.
Organized by Tina di Carlo, Assistant Curator, Department of
Architecture and Design, and Alexandra Quantrill, Curatorial Assistant,
Department of Architecture and Design.
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http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/cctv.html