The CCTV Headquarters is a 234 m, 44-storey skyscraper on East Third Ring Road, Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business District (CBD). The tower serves as headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) that was formerly at the China Central Television Building located at 11 Fuxin Road some 15 km to the west. The Headquarters has been finally completed in May 2012. The CCTV Headquarters won the 2013 Best Tall Building Worldwide from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Beijing National Stadium, officially the National Stadium[4] (pinyin: guójiātǐyùchǎng), also known as theBird's Nest (鸟巢), is a stadium in Beijing, China. The stadium was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.The stadium cost US428 million. Ground was broken on 24 December 2003 and the stadium officially opened on 28 June 2008.

The ShanghaiWorld Financial Center (SWFC; Chinese: 上海环球金融中心) is a super-tall skyscraperlocated in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls. On 14 September 2007, the skyscraper was topped out at 492.0 meters (1,614.2 ft),[2][4] making it, at the time, the second-tallest building in the world and the tallest structure in Mainland China. It also had the highest occupied floor and the highest height to roof, two categories used to determine the title of "world’s tallest building". The SWFC opened on 28 August 2008, with its observation deckopening on 30 August. This observation deck, the world's tallest at the time of its completion, offers views from 474 m above ground level. The SWFC has been lauded for its design, and in 2008 it was named by architects as the year's best completed skyscraper.

National Grand Theatre (simplified Chinese: 国家大剧院), and colloquially described as The Giant Egg (巨蛋) is an opera house in Beijing. The Centre, an ellipsoid dome of titanium and glass surrounded by an artificial lake, seats 5,452 people in three halls and is almost 12,000 m² in size. Construction started in December 2001 and the inaugural concert was held in December 2007.