Skyscrapper for you

OMA/Ole Scheeren and Rem Koolhaas
(scheduled for completion in 2008)

The design of the new Central Chinese Television (CCTV) headquarters defies the popular conception of a skyscraper. It broke Beijing 's building codes and required approval by a special review panel The standard systems for engineering gravity and lateral loads in buildings didn't apply to the CCTV building , which is formed by two leaning towers , each bent 90 degrees at the top and bottom to form a continuous loop . The engineer's solution is to create a structural " tube " of diagonal supports . The irregular pattern of this " diagrid " system reflect the distribution of forces across the tube's surface.

Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren and engineered by Dane, Ove Arup.