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Stadium, Olympics

Project timeline

December 23rd 2003 – June 28th 2008

Type

Sport

Location Change this

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Also known as Change this

Bird's Nest, 北京国家体育场 (Beijing National Stadium ), 国家体育场 (National Stadium)

Architect Change this

Team

Stefan Marbach
Ai WeiWei

Client Change this

City of Beijing

Gross floor area Change this

254,600m²

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General contractor
Arup Ben McMillan
www.arup.com

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Article last edited by Maria Thuroczy on
April 30th, 2013

Olympic Stadium Beijing Change this

Beijing, China
by Herzog & de Meuron Change this

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Beijing National Stadium was a joint venture among architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron, project architect Stefan Marbach, artist Ai Weiwei, and CADG which was lead by chief architect Li Xinggang. During their first meeting in 2003, at Basel,the group decided to do something unlike Herzog and de Meuron had traditionally designed.

"China wanted to have something new for this very important stadium," Li stated. In an effort to design a stadium that was "porous" while also being "a collective building, a public vessel", the team studied Chinese ceramics. This line of thought brought the team to the "nest scheme". The stadium consists of two independent structures, standing 50 feet apart: a red concrete seating bowl and the outer steel frame around it.

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