
National Stadium (Bird's Nest)
Also known as 国家体育场
2008
Contemporary
stadium
Herzog & de Meuron designed the 2008 Olympic stadium as a concrete bowl wrapped in an interlocking lattice of 42,000 tons of steel: beams that serve simultaneously as structure, facade, and circulation, blurring the distinction between…
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- 2008
Herzog & de Meuron
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