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Bird's Nest Beijing * Olympic National Stadium

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Uploaded by on Mar 9, 2008

-- modern architecture : daringly Chinese timid it is not -- "could not have been built anywhere else but China" -- cost 3.5 billion yuan (422,873,850 USD or 325,395,593 EUR)

http://www.bbzine.com/3lue3eams/bluebeams.html

Beijing Modern Architecture Guide -- China Architectural Tour --
Herzog de Meuron's instant noodle, enough noodle for f-o-u-r stadiums -- 2008 Beijing Summer Games Main Olympic Stadium -- athletics tracks and fields -- Swiss architects Jaques Herzog Pierre De Meuron of HdeM EFTE BOCOG chinese artist Ai Weiwei contextual limit of tradition modernism avant-garde building art construction sports Olympic arena for Zhang Yimou's opening and closing ceremonies -- science technology -- an extravagant seductively intricate way over the top naked ambitions pushing the edge of the envelope of engaging grey freedom fries -- Ove Arup of ArupSport FC Basel Switzerland and HdM China Architecture Design & Research Group tangled noodle basket bowl structure Song Ming dynasty ceramic vase window wooden lattice -- mainland H&dM China's penchant for metaphor and symmetry, propensity for analogy and gargantuan national geographic modern monuments [*]

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  • The Beijing olympic stadium not same the Bird'S Nest...I say same the chocolate cake...

    wow...i like it..... : )

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