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Bird's Nest

Abstract:

The main venue for the Beijing Olympics, the National Stadium, widely known as the Bird’s Nest because of its unique design, has become a nationwide sensation.

The removal of the elements helped to bring the project under the reduced construction budget of $290 million, from an original $500 million. With the removal of the retractable roof, the building was lightened, which helped it stand up to seismic activity; however, the upper section of the roof was altered to protect fans from weather. Due to the stadium's outward appearance, it was nicknamed "The Bird's Nest". The phrase was first used by Herzog & de Meuron, though the pair still believes "there should be many ways of perceiving a building. "The use is a compliment Li explained, "In China, a bird's nest is very expensive, something you eat on special occasions."

Introduction:

The National Stadium is situated in the Beijing Olympic Green. During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the opening

ceremony, closing ceremony, track

and field meets, and men's football

final will be held here. It is the

world's largest steel structure and

the most complex stadium ever

constructed. Its design had to be

inspiring and be able to withstand

an earthquake. So 'light weight'

was combined with strength in 110

000 tons of a new grade of steel,

the purest ever developed in China, including 36km of steel struts. It has been a landmark and a longstanding symbol of the Olympics. It is "one of the key engineering marvels in the world today."

The Bird's Nest was the main venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and it has a seating capacity of over 91,000. With a simple and classical space effects, the National Stadium is beautifully designed; and all the structural parts support with each other, forming a network framework. It looks like a bird's nest woven with branches. After the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the stadium will become a sports and entertainment facility for the residents of Beijing. And it will become another important tourist attraction of Beijing.

By the 2001 Pritzker Prize winner Herzog, and the Chinese architect Li Xinggang de Meuron collaborated giant stadium design, forms as life" nest", it is more like a cradle, is entrusted with the mankind's hope for the future. The designers of the National Stadium did not do any extra processing, just give the structure is exposed outside, so the natural formation of the appearance of a building.

Design and construction:

Located in the Olympic Green, the stadium cost US$423 million. The design was awarded to a submission from the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in April 2003 after a