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HISTORY
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To support the rapid expansion of China Central Television (CCTV) in 2002 launched an international
competition to design the building that would be headquartered in Beijing. The winner was the
architectural firm OMA Rem Koolhaas, accompanied by engineering firm Arup and Architecture Design
Institute of East China (top right). The structural design of the CCTV posed many technical challenges for
large international team that dictated the design through global collaboration, transcending time zones,
physical distances, cultures, cost centres, and even an outbreak of SARS. Finally, the team gave a
complex design on time and was approved by the panel of experts from the Chinese Ministry of
Construction. CCTV headquarters was officially opened by the President on January 1, 2008, during the
2008 Beijing Olympics, although the works were not completed until May 2012.

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