The Arup Journal
2/2005 The Arup Journal CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China: Structural engineering design and approvals Chris Carroll, Paul Cross, Xiaonian Duan, Craig Gibbons, Goman Ho, Michael Kwok, Richard Lawson, Alexis Lee, Andrew Luong, Rory McGowan, Chas Pope The Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh David Hadden, Don Henning, Patricia Johnstone, David Lewis, Duncan Richards, Alan Tweedie, Simon Webster. Robin Wilkinson Constitutional Court, Johannesburg Altstair Avern-Taplin 'The Hub' Community Resource Centre, London Chris Trott Making knowledge work Dominique Poole, Tony Sheehan Plantation Place development, City of London 35 Plantation Place Mick Brundle 39 Plantation Lane Lee Hosking, Dec/an O'Carro/1 41 Plantation Place South Graham Goymour Miami Airport QTA: ri sk-informed performance based fire protection Richard Custer. Matthew Johann Brian McLaughlin, Brian Meacham, Jeffrey Tubbs, Christopher Wood, Eileen Wood Designing buildings for a wireless world Bob Cather. Alan Newbold, Edwin Stokes Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Los Angeles Eugene Desouza, Andy Howard, Teena Videriksen CClV Headquarters, Beijing China: Structural engineering design and approvals Chris Carroll Paul Cross Xiaonian Duan Craig Gibbons Goman Ho Michael Kwok Richard Lawson Alexis Lee Andrew Luong Rory McGowan Chas Pope Introduction Growth in China is happening at an historically unparalleled rate. China Central Television (CCTV), the principal state-run broadcaster, currently has 13 channels, but by 2008 it plans to be operating over 200 channels and competing successfully with CNN, NBC, Sky, and the BBC in the global market. To enable this expansion, and to place CCTV firmly on the global map, a new headquarters facility was needed, with the entire television-making process housed in one location within Beijing's newly-designated Central Business District (Fig 1).
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