Beijing Television Cultural Center, skyscraper in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
The Television Cultural Center (TVCC) is a 34-story, 159-meter tower on East Third Ring Road in Beijing's Central Business District. Its upper facade is covered in closely spaced vertical white fins; below, the structure twists and slopes outward, clad in parallel dark grey diagonal slats, with a broad yellow triangular surface at the base. It stands beside the CCTV Headquarters, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA.
The building suffered a major fire in 2009 during Chinese New Year celebrations, which required significant reconstruction efforts. After completion of repairs, the facility reopened to the public in 2012 and has operated since.
The building hosted the International Broadcasting Center for the 2008 Olympic Games. Its ground-floor lobby leads to a 1,500-seat theater, a ballroom, digital cinemas, recording studios and exhibition spaces; the scenography was designed with dUCKS scéno and the acoustics studied by DHV. The hotel lobby sits on the fifth floor, with rooms above forming an atrium over the public facilities.
The building sits on East Third Ring Road and welcomes visitors through a public lobby at ground level. Inside, multiple facilities serve different purposes including a hotel with dining options, meeting spaces, and various performance venues.
The building hosted the International Broadcasting Center for the 2008 Olympic Games. Its hotel floors were planned for the Mandarin Oriental with 203 rooms and 38 suites, but the 2009 fire shelved that plan; after the April 2026 reopening the hotel is to be run by the Media Center, and the Mandarin Oriental sign had not been fully removed.
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