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The Beijing Television Cultural Center fire was a massive blaze on 9 February 2009, in the centre of Beijing, involving the uncompleted Beijing Television Cultural Center (TVCC) building. The building was adjacent to the CCTV Headquarters, is owned by China Central Television, and was scheduled for completion in May 2009. Currently, the TVCC is being rebuilt. At 8:27 p.m. on 9 February 2009, the entire building caught fire on the last day of the festivities marking the Chinese new year and was put out six hours later. A nearby unauthorised fireworks display caused the fire.〔Andrew Jacobs, (Fire Ravages Renowned Building in Beijing ), New York Times, 9 February 2009〕 The incident, and its coverage by Chinese state media, caused a furor in China. CCTV officials had authorised the powerful pyrotechnics, carried it out without the required permit from local government, and ignored repeated police warnings not to hold them. The authorities' attempts to limit damaging direct coverage of the blaze were criticised by citizens and the international press. ==Background== Construction was started in 2004 and was expected to be completed in May 2009.〔〔(OMA CCTV – Television Cultural Centre, China, Beijing, 2002 )〕 The building was to be named "Television Cultural Center", TVCC, with the Beijing Mandarin Oriental being its main tenant. Its nicknames include the Termite's Nest or the Boot because of its radical design. The building, along with the CCTV Headquarters Building, was built using far less steel than conventional skyscrapers,〔 Jonathan Glancey, ("Beijing's newest skyscraper survives blaze" ), The Guardian, 11 February 2009〕 and designed to withstand major earthquakes.〔 The radical structure gives the towers their form.〔 In all, 140,000 tonnes of steel was used in its construction.〔 The construction budget of the building is said to be near US$730 million.〔(Who will pay the bill for the massive CCTV fire? ), Xinhua, 18 February 2009〕 The center would have included a television studio with seating for 1,500 audience members, recording studios, digital cinemas, news release facilities, and a 241-room five-star hotel to be operated by Mandarin Oriental.〔 The total height of the 44-floor building was 159m.〔〔(Emporis.com – TVCC building )〕 The innovative, wedge-shaped building was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The engineering firm for the building was Arup, East Asia,〔(Television Cultural Centre Hotel ), Arup East Asia〕 who designed and built the TVCC after an extensive internal study of the World Trade Center building collapses on 11 September 2001.〔(Tall Orders )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beijing Television Cultural Center fire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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