While the name "the Bird's Nest" conjures up images of China, critics say the stadium doesn’t. There’s no trace of Chinese culture in the design, and shouldn’t such a prestigious job have gone to a Chinese architect? Increasing number of Beijing residents are worrying about their city becoming a testing ground for radical architecture. aljazeera + olympic countdown
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well. another excellent description of the state of architecture in China. we should all thank the writer for sharing with us his prejudices, limited knowledge and shameful ignorance about China, architecture, the development of Beijing and the several foreign and Chinese architects involved in building the birds' nest. what a joke and misrepresentation this article is.
Maybe --- but is chaos the best startpoint, that chaos will newer produce the cheap flats, the new houses or the beautifull new architecture -- chaos as you see there in that structure is proberly a fancy new experience but it's a dead-end and has nothing to do with architecture, why please tell me why chaos and not order shal be the start point, be the expression, the delivery. -------- and my mistake made me think, that each frame was forming it's own plane, now with these pictures it is clear that not even this is how it is, each frame are a fiddled space frame twisted and I wonder if it follow the drawing, how can it, if each frame don't form it's own plane ?
----- And then where are the the great advance ?
Nonsense. The bird nest is a total Chinese emblem. Ever had "seafood sparrow's nest" at a Chinese restaurant? Ever noticed the window pane designs of southern Chinese residences of the 15th century?
i bet you there are more needles in the haystack. for either camp...
i might be naive or my information is incomplete, but, are there going to be some sharp shadow patterns on the field? this picture is little hard to see.
in this case though, bubbles don't need no explanation to do.
Coolio.
To me, the bird's nest is a great design for an olympic stadium. I don't know if it was the architects' intention, but all those lines speak to me of the many different projectiles/jumps made/balls kicked etc within the stadium. It's like a palimpset of sporting activity.
I accept it's not very strong on 'Chinese culture', but what do people want exactly? What exactly is Chinese culture? I think if the hosts themselves wanted cutting edge architecture imported, then that is the best representation of current Chinese culture. The alternative that many would rather - a pastiche of Chinese pagodas or the like - would only be patronising to the nation.
For me, this is an accurate reflection of China today. Why restrict a country to local architects when that is not the nature of the country (and, increasingly, the world)?
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