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Beijing Television Cultural Center in Chaoyang District, People's Republic of China
Beijing Television Cultural Center

2009 · Chaoyang District, Chaoyang District, People's Republic of China

Beijing Television Cultural Center image

Skyscraper in the Central Business District of Beijing, China

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Beijing Television Cultural Center

Chaoyang District, Chaoyang District, People's Republic of China · Exact work coordinates

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Beijing Television Cultural Center

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Skyscraper in the Central Business District of Beijing, China

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Beijing Television Cultural CenterBeijing Television Cultural Center

2009 · Chaoyang District, Chaoyang District, People's Republic of China

Louis I. KahnLouis I. Kahn

1947-1974 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20091947-1974
PlaceChaoyang District, Chaoyang District, People's Republic of ChinaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Place context朝阳路, 呼家楼街道, 朝阳区, 中国Representative site: Sansom Street, West Philadelphia, University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Climate9°C · 13.5h daylight · 8 km/h wind10°C · 13.5h daylight · 18 km/h wind · via University of Pennsylvania
FocusPerformance venue12 works in corpus
Architects
  • Rem Koolhaas
  • Louis Kahn
  • Louis Kahn
Linked context

Bureaus

  • OMA

Notable works

  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Salk Institute
  • Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban
  • Yale Center for British Art
Typologies
  • performance venue
  • hospitality
  • education
  • campus building
  • institutional building
  • research campus
  • laboratory
  • parliament
  • civic building
  • government building
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • concrete
  • teak
  • travertine
  • marble
  • aluminum
  • brick
  • steel
  • timber
Carbon signals

performance venue and hospitality gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet.

No dominant drivers yet.

Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
Lower-carbon levers

No levers surfaced yet.

  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible8 of 8 recorded works are publicly accessible
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