Stock Photo: Phoenix International Media Center, Beijing, China
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The Phoenix Center is located in the southwest corner of Beijing Chaoyang Park, has a land area of 18,000 square meters with a total construction area of over 72,000 square meters. The building`s sculptural shape originates from the `Mobius Strip` and establishes a harmony relationship with the turning road alignment, the street corner, and Chaoyang Park. Besides the media Office, the Broadcasting Studios and the production offices, the building provides abundant open space for the general public to experience and interact,expressing the unique and open operating concept of phoenix media. To create an ecological envelope to embrace independent program spaces within it as a building- in building concept, and many shared public spaces are generated between the two. In the east and west shared spaces, there are continuous steps, landscape platforms, elevated sky walks and long escalators which make the building filled with energetic and dynamic atmosphere!Completed in 2014, this doughnut-shaped building serves as the headquarters for the Chinese broadcaster Phoenix Television. It is located on the corner of Chaoyang Park in Beijing.Designed by the architectural studio BIAD UFO, the building is formed by two bulbous towers with kidney-shaped floorplans wrapped in a latticed glass and steel skin. One tower is several storeys taller than the other giving the torus’ volume its angled profile. The architects were inspired by the twisted form of a symbolic Mo?bius strip.The outer shell, made up of a 'stretched' web of steel and 3,800 differently sized and detailed glass panels, encloses snaking elevated walkways and staircases that connect offices and studios. Throughout, the interiors are finished with light-coloured flooring, white walls and gridded glazing.The curving volume peels away from the ground to reveal access routes to an open-air atrium in the centre of the building.
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