on our way to a meeting this morning (here) passby these...
northwest
New CCTV HQ(under construction)
(artist rendering)
Undoubtedly China’s most spectacular new building project to date, costing a whopping $750 million. Designed by Rem Koolhass of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), the 230-meter tall twin-tower is connected on both the ground and at the top as a twisted loop. The irregular grid on the building surface is supposed to represent the forces traveling throughout the structure.
west
China World Trade Center Tower 3(under construction)
(artist rendering)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The China World Trade Center (CWTC) development in Beijing is a large long-term project in the heart of Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD).
For Phase Three, a new tower is being erected that will become the tallest building in Beijing at 330m. It will feature office accommodation, a five-star hotel at the top of the building, as well as retail and entertainment venues.
southwest
(silhouette at left)
(artist rendering)
The Beijing TV Center is a building that is 258 meter high with 41 floors above the ground. This project marks a milestone for the japanese architectural firm Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
north
Wanda Plaza(Sofitel towers at left)
(me as foreground asungot)
"..architecturally speaking, since a number of new designs are unlike anything ever seen in China, or anywhere else for that matter. Suddenly the focus of many of the world's great architects, Beijing in the run up to the Olympics, is like a blank canvas. Some wonder, though, if all the lavish new strokes are too expensive, and eccentric."
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