The 29th Olympic Games official website January 28th, 2008 January 28th, Beijing, North Fourth Ring Road, Beichen West Bridge East, "Bird’s Nest" West. A huge blue crystal palace-style building covering an area of nearly 80,000 square meters-National Swimming Center (referred to as "Water Cube") was completed.
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Li Aiqing, chairman of the State-owned Company, the owner of Water Cube, received the certificate of completion and the golden key from Chen Gang, vice mayor of Beijing. |
During the day, the light blue "coat" of the "Water Cube" bathes in bright sunshine, which is soft and picturesque against the blue sky and white clouds. At night, the Chinese lanterns are shining, and the bubbles of the "Water Cube" are full of color. This blue crystal palace is more pure, soft and charming.
This crystal-clear building, with its ingenious design, complicated and free structure, simple and pure shape and advanced technology of environmental protection, has become a classic in the history of Olympic architecture in the past 100 years and a landmark in the history of Beijing and even the world.
The centennial Olympic architecture bears witness to the centennial Olympic course and shows the sublimity and beauty of human society.
After the second Olympic Games (Paris Olympic Games in 1900) and the third Olympic Games (St. Louis Olympic Games in 1904) were submerged in the World Expo, the Olympic building ushered in the first modern gymnasium in history-Baicheng Stadium. Baicheng Stadium is the first stadium specially designed and built for the Olympic Games. In addition to the cinder track, a gymnasium, a swimming pool with a length of 100 meters and a free car track with a circumference of 666.66 meters are built in the stadium, which can accommodate 66,288 spectators. So much so that Coubertin declared that "the Olympic Games held in London is the first modern Olympic Games."
It is this modern style stadium that pioneered the modernization of sports buildings or Olympic buildings. The Olympic buildings (especially the main stadium) in Stockholm, Sweden in 1912, Antwerp, Belgium in 1920, Paris, France in 1924, Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1928, Sydney, Australia in 2000, Athens, Greece in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 all followed the Olympic movement.
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