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The 336th tallest building in the world

234 m · 768 ft

The CCTV Headquarters is a 51-floor skyscraper consisting of two conjoined towers that sits on the East Third Ring Road, Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business District (CBD). It serves as the headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) and is the world's 10th largest office building. Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA were the architects in charge for the building, while Cecil Balmond at Arup provided the complex engineering design. The building's construction began on 1 June 2004 and its façade was completed in January 2008. The structure was feted by some architectural critics as "the greatest work of architecture built in this century" and was named the 2013 Best Tall Building Worldwide by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More tall buildings in China

  1. Shanghai Tower632 m
  2. Ping An Finance Centre599 m
  3. CTF Finance Centre530 m
  4. Shanghai World Financial Center494.3 m
  5. International Commerce Centre484 m

Other tall buildings worldwide

  1. Burj Khalifa · Dubai829.8 m
  2. Merdeka 118 · Kuala Lumpur678.9 m
  3. Shanghai Tower · Shanghai632 m
  4. Abraj Al Bait · Mecca601 m
  5. Makkah Clock Royal Tower Hotel · Mecca601 m
  6. Ping An Finance Centre · Futian Subdistrict599 m
  7. Lotte World Tower · Songpa District555.7 m
  8. One World Trade Center · Manhattan546.2 m