Bird’s Nest Stadium Could Have Been UFO Stadium
August 13, 2008
Bird's Nest Stadium, Beijing
Bird’s Nest Stadium, designed for the Beijing Olympics, looks pretty incredible – as do many of the other buildings created for the Olympics. But for every building that gets built, there are many ideas that don’t. For the national stadium, China had a competition. Here are some of the other entries (click on thumbnails to see a larger picture):
“a symbolic link – a bridge – between old and new,” apparently, the roof moves as 2 leaves, but I dont really understand how…
“a floating water lily surrounded by petals and blossoms,” the central roof can open to a perimeter of 130 meters
yep, another retractable roof, complete with UFO aesthetics
pretty neat shape that doesnt show in the thumbnail. click on image to see larger picture
I don’t understand this, but apparently the floating thing is a suspending retractable roof
See the 13 finalist entries, multiple pictures of each and a full explanation here.
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Tags: , Bird's Nest Stadium, China, design competition, Olympics
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August 13th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I was surprised when this page opened, it supposed to be GMAIL.
anyway, nice blog and great Bird’s Nest haha…
August 17th, 2008 at 11:41 am
The last photo is great!)) To tell you the truth I dont really understand what is THAT??how did they do that?? They prepared well.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
hi, I got here by misspelling gmail.. but I liked the suprise.
will come back and read more.
joel
August 25th, 2008 at 12:18 am
i have bein comming on this site for no reason except for it a good change … from gmail