"The Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture is building one of the most extraordinary projects of our times, the Chinese Central Televison Headquarters in Beijing, China. Scheduled for completion in time for the 2008 Olympics, it will be one of the largest buildings in the world and an outstanding engineering feat that appears to defy gravity.
"The central building, called by some disbelievers the 'twisted donut', consists of two colossal towers that rise from the nine-story L-shaped base and leans towards each other at six-degree angle. More than 100 metres up in the air, each tower cantilevers horizontally to form a giant overhang, the two endsof which meet at an L-shaped angle in the air.
"'The irregular net looks almost irrational, but it is in fact the true expression of the forces inside the building.'"
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