Sentence examples for cctv tower from inspiring English sources

The CCTV tower is nothing if not ambitious.

The CCTV tower was, he said, a "diagram" of "collective inhabitation," a design that "you would never do anywhere else".

The ugliest building in Beijing isn't Rem Koolhaas's controversial CCTV tower, known commonly as the "big underpants" due to its shape.

Just as Koolhaas can love the hutongs of Beijing and design the CCTV tower, it seems he can live a complex personal life.

That trip led to a number of collaborations with Mr. Koolhaas, including an assignment to document construction of the CCTV tower in Beijing, which involved flying to Beijing every eight weeks.

Keeping the CCTV tower upright begins more than two hundred feet underground, with a vast forest of closely spaced reinforced-concrete piles, each of which is a hundred and sixty feet tall and approximately five feet in diameter.

China Central Television/ Mandarin Hotel The CCTV towers will not be ready for the Olympics.

The Chinese capital is filled with mind-boggling projects, by superstar architects, that are going up at breakneck speed: Herzog and de Meuron's "bird's nest" Olympic stadium; Rem Koolhaas's enormous, cantilevered CCTV towers; Steven Holl's two million-square-foot-plus Linked Hybrid development; Norman Foster's Terminal 3 at the Beijing airport, which will be the biggest building in the world.

Seven companies have purchased floors in this tower: CCTV, BBC, CBC, Televisa, TV Azteca and a French network.

In Fish Tank, that story was of underage sex and child abduction on the Essex badlands; in Red Road, CCTV crime among the tower blocks of Glasgow; and now in Catch Me Daddy, prescription drug abuse and lay-by axe attacks on the outskirts of Huddersfield: the view through the Ryan viewfinder is certainly pretty "real".

But it has never been a center for innovation or experienced the kind of massive growth that it has in the last two decades, sending its outer edges sprawling endlessly in a pattern familiar to Southern Californians even as its Central Business District, home to CCTV and other bold towers, increasingly resembles dense, vertical Manhattan.