12. The CCTV Headquarters in China
Location: China’s Chaoyang
* Total Expensed: $800 million; Year Completed: 2012
China Central Television’s primary headquarters are located in the distinctive CCTV Headquarters building in Chaoyang, China. The structure is regarded as one of the greatest architectural achievements of the twenty-first century, and in 2013, it was named the “Best Tall Building Worldwide” by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
The CCTV Headquarters in China (Shutterstock/ABCDstock)
A typical tower is not what a skyscraper is. Rather, it’s an asymmetrical grid with an open center made up of a loop of six vertical and horizontal pieces that span 5.1 million square feet of floor space. Due to the building’s location in a seismic zone, which posed several difficulties for the developers, construction took a lengthy period of time.
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