Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, China

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	Beijing National Stadium
Designer	Herzog and de Meuron
Location	Beijing, China
Date	2003 to 2008
Climate	Warm Temperate
Context	Campus Context
Architectural Style	Deconstructivist Modern
Street Address
Notes	with Ai Weiwei, FAKE Design, Beijing, China; Part of the Beijing Olympic Green, site of the 2008 Olympic Games.

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Building Details
Client	Chinese Olympic Committee, 2008 Summer Olympics
Cost	3.5 Billion Yuan
Area	250,000 square meters
Height	69.2m
Length	330m
Width	220m
Program	seating for 100,000 spectators at the 2008 Olympic Games.

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Project Credits

Architects: Herzog and de Meuron
Engineer: Arup Sport

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Beijing National Stadium

The Beijing National Stadium (), also known as the National Stadium,The National Stadium - The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games or the "Bird's Nest" (鳥巢) for its architecture, is a stadium has finished for the Olympic Green in Beijing, China that is scheduled for completion in March, 2008Photo:The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The stadium will host the main track and field competitions for the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. It is located right next to the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.

Design

In 2002, Government officials engaged architects worldwide in a design competition. Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron collaborated with ArupSport and China Architecture Design & Research Group to win the competition. Contemporary Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, is the Artistic Consultant for design. Merewether, Charles, Editor.~Essays by Jonathan Napack and Chin-Chin Yap. Ai Weiwei, Works: Beijing 1993-2003. Beijing: Timezone 8 Ltd., 2003. The ground was broken on Christmas Eve December 2003, and construction started in March 2004, but was halted by the high construction cost in August 2004 and continued again. In January 2008, concerns about construction working conditions arose when it was revealed that at least 10 workers had died during the stadium's construction.China hushes up Olympic deaths - Times Online

Capacity

The stadium can seat as many as 91,000 spectators during the Olympics. The capacity will then be reduced to 80,000 after the Games. It has replaced the original intended venue of the Guangdong Olympic Stadium. The stadium is 330 metres long by 220 metres wide, and is 69.2 metres tall. The stadium uses 258,000 square metres of space and has a usable area of 204,000 square metres. It was built with 36 km of unwrapped steel, with a combined weight of 45,000 tonnes. The stadium has some 11,000 square metres of underground rooms with waterproof walls. The stadium will cost up to 3.5 billion yuan (≈423 million USD).

Upon completion, this stadium will boast a state of the art Solar PV system produced by Suntech Power.