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 [...]

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I read a lot about the FUWA when they were first unveiled as the 2008 Beijing Olympic mascots about a year ago. Thought now, on this opening day might be a good time to review how the mascots came to be. According to the Olympic site, each of Fuwa has a rhyming two-syllable name -a [...]

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China has had to face its own environmental nightmares on the global stage. Air pollution from automobiles has changed driving restrictions, factories are being threatened to shut down, and now the lake in Qingdao being used for aquatic competitions is filled with algae. In some areas the lake may be several feet deep in algae [...]

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