Beijing's CCTV headquarters, the world renown architect, Rem Koolhaas's masterpiece in Beijing was caught on fire on the last day of New Years celebrations.
The fire broke out on Monday evening, and one firefighter was killed tackling the blaze and seven other people were injured.
CCTV has been responsible for the fire, as CCTV hired staff from a fireworks company to ignite several hundred large festive firecrackers in an open space outside one of its nearly-completed buildings.
The China Central Television headquarters is a 6.45 million square foot complex that involves twin leaning towers connected by two massive sections in midair. It's an amazing feat of engineering. Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of The Office for Metropolitan Architecture won the contract for Central Chinese Television Headquarters in December 2002
The destroyed building housed the Mandarin Oriental hotel in eastern Beijing, which was supposed to open in 2009. It was also designed to include a theater, recording studios and cinemas, while CCTV's main production and broadcasting units were to occupy the main building next door.
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