Architecture & Urbanism | blog » structure http://www.architecture-urbanism.com Architecture & Urbanism in [TAGS] Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:23:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “Water Cube” designers delight in box of bubbles http://www.architecture-urbanism.com/water-cube-designers-delight-in-box-of-bubbles/ http://www.architecture-urbanism.com/water-cube-designers-delight-in-box-of-bubbles/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:00:36 +0000 admin http://www.architecture-urbanism.com/?p=3 A blue box beating with a green heart, Beijing’s “Water Cube” National Aquatics Centre is the product of design and engineering harmony, and a rising power’s desire to announce itself to the world.

The $143-million venue for swimming, diving and synchronised swimming at the Beijing Games opened with a test event on Thursday, allowing the Chinese capital’s residents to ponder the ethereal cuboid structure at close range for the first time.

They will see “a swimming centre made out of a box full of bubbles,” according to Tristram Carfrae, the man behind its inflatable bubble-wrapped facade.

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