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Click images (copyright Herzog
& De Meuron for larger views).
Herzog & De Meuron recently were named
the winner of an international competition to design the new
National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing, China. The Swiss firm proposed a seemingly random,
lattice-like network of concrete strips forming the stadium's
bowl shape, resembling a "bird's nest", in the architect's
words. Gaps between the concrete structure would be filled
with "inflatable cushions", another phrase the architects
used to describe their innovative design. |
