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12th February 2008
Jonathan Glancey reviews Beijing new stadiums
The Guardian’s architectural critic Jonathan Glancey reviews Beijings new stadiums for the 2008 Olympics.
“In dramatic contrast, the main stadium for this year’s Beijing Olympics is, quite simply, stunning. Here is an adventure in steel and concrete, a building - despite its age-old purpose - like no other.”
And on the new aquatic center he writes:
“In essence, the Water Cube is a big, £50m steel and concrete box containing a huge swimming pool flanked by 17,000 seats. But what an extraordinary box it is. The pattern of the structure has been designed to hold huge pillows of ETFE, a lightweight substitute for glass, the same inflated hi-tech material used to clad the domes of Cornwall’s Eden Centre. The pattern is based on the natural formation of soap bubbles to give a random, organic appearance.”
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