To host Guangzhou Games in China, Canton TV Tower with its height of 610 metres was launched in the beginning of 2010. The tower is designed by Dutch architects Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit. Based on an attempt to create this gigantic mass appearing as a dynamically lightweight tower, the design was awarded first prized in a competition. The practice collaborated with Arup team in Amsterdam to develop the concept design and in the later stage the project cooperated mainly with the local office of Arup in Hong Kong.
The form, volume and hyperboloid structure are generated by two ellipses, one at foundation level and the other at an imaginary horizontal plane just above 450 metres. The waist of the tower contains a 180 metre-long open air skywalk, and is accompanied with a cinema, restaurant and gallery. []
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