Construction of the New CCTV Building

23.2.2008 von Ines.

The other day I passed by the construction site of the new . This building has a unique shape - referred to as a Z criss cross. The CCTV Headquarter Building is 230m high and will have a floor area of about 400,000m2. It combines space for administration, news, broadcasting, studios and program production – encompassing the entire process of TV making. The outside structure is now almost finished:

Unfortunately I did not take many pictures in regular intervals to document the progress of the construction (that would have been nice… maybe next time they build such an outstanding building…). I did take some. Here was how it looked like on Mai 3rd 2007:

For a long time the two sides of the building were separate, just like two towers. When they got really close everybody was often asking”Are they touching yet?”. This is how it looked like on October 28th 2007. It is hard to see in this small resolution, but they were not touching at all on this picture:

But yes, now they definitely are touching, as can be seen here. And oops there is a small fire from the welding (Feb 16th 2008):

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