November
15, 2006 - February 26,2007
OMA
in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters by Ole Scheeren
and Rem Koolhaas in MoMA's Architecture and Design Galleries
This exhibition
presents one of the most innovative architecture projects under
construction today. Scheduled to open for the Beijing Olympics
in 2008, the complex, which comprises three buildings and a
media park situated on a site east of Beijing's Forbidden City,
embodies a proposal for social and urban change through a rethinking
of the tall building. CCTV is a private building that will have
a uniquely public Visitor's Loop, while its mirror image—TVCC,
or the Television Cultural Center—is a public structure
housing a state-of-the-art broadcasting theater, cultural facilities,
and a five-star hotel.
The international
architectural partnership Office of Metropolitan Architecture
(OMA) won the competition for its design in 2002, and the project
broke ground in 2004, with OMA partner Ole Scheeren leading
its design and execution. The immersive installation explores
the project's internal complexity and richness, its integration
of public and private uses, and its structural innovation through
an array of graphics, renderings, and explanatory texts as well
as large- and small-scale models,many of them presented publicly
here for the first time. A selection of architectural drawings
from MoMA's collection will situate the project as one of the
most visionary undertakings in the history of modern architecture.
Organized
by Tina di Carlo, Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture
and Design, and Alexandra Quantrill, Curatorial Assistant, Department
of Architecture and Design.
Contact:
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019-5497
Tel.: 212- 708-9400
pressoffice@moma.org
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