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Gallery: Building Beijing's Miraculous CCTV Headquarters Tower

Better buildings through geometry

Related BOWN Article: China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters

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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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