Beijing Olympic Green Convention Centre

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Project Name: Beijing Olympic Green Convention Centre
Construction year: 2008
Website:
Address: Olympic Boulevard , BEIJING - China

Architect(s) : RMJM Architects (www.rmjm.com)
Project Category: Cultural

Latitude: 39.9999
Longitude: 116.39

Beijing Olympic Green Convention Centre

Construction began in 2006 on the RMJM-designed building for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Approx. cost £400m. Coordinated design from the practice in Hong Kong. The Beijing Olympic Green Convention Centre (BOGCC), located on the Olympic Boulevard and designed by award winning international architects, RMJM, enters a new phase tomorrow as the media facility goes live 24/7 in the run up to the Beijing Olympic Games.

The largest media centre in Olympic history is part of the BOGCC complex that accommodates both the Main Press Centre (MPC) and International Broadcasting Centre (IBC). Occupying more than 150,000 square metres, the MPC and IBC will be home to more than 20,000 accredited journalists, photographers and broadcasters.

The BOGCC complex will also host the Olympic and Paralympic fencing and pentathlon pistol shooting events and comprises of two sports halls. The adjacent hotels in the multi-purpose complex will be used during the Olympics to accommodate some of the visiting media contingent.

In line with BOCOG s Green Olympics message, RMJM s design includes systems that make use of natural elements together with a high degree of insulation throughout the building. Green features include the rain water collection on the roof for flushing systems and the irrigation of the surrounding landscape, an ice storage cooling system and a -free air cooling- ventilation system in the public foyers of the convention centre.

Additionally, the BOGCC has been designed to ensure maximum return on investment and the highest rate of commercial viability post Games. The 220,000 square metre main structure is scheduled to reopen as the National Convention Centre of China in 2009.

Part of the challenge of this assignment was to ensure that the facility had a distinct and viable second life shortly after the close of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. With this in mind, the design ensured that the facility could be retrofitted within a relatively short period of time without huge added expense. Post Games, the complex will accommodate the Plenary Hall, the Convention & Exhibition Centre along with offices, retail, service apartments, a 5-Star hotel and a business hotel,- said RMJM’s Scott Findley, design director, Asia.

Contributed by ArchiTeam