Beijing Olympic Stadium

[Spike79]

Has anyone seen the new stadium that is being built for the Beijing Olympics?

I saw it on the news this evening and all i could think was "That is the greatest eyesore i've ever seen... Seriously"

The design is supposed to look like a birds nest and contains 36kms of exposed steel. It was created by prize winning architects and was selected from a worldwide design competition. It will have a capacity of 100,000 seats for the Olympic games.

I could only find pictures of how the finished stadium will look, none of the stadium in its current form.

What do you think? Eyesore or Design excellence.

 

[calais_304]

Looks like it was designed in revit, don't like it, it would suit vietnam better.

 

[Charg'd]

yuck............

 

[Reaper]

Dunno about design excellence but IMHO it looks very effective.

Reaper

 

[CANYONERO]

my mums says if you got nothin nice to say, dont say nothin at all. im choosing to say nothing more.

 

[Shanoqueeb]

i think it's the crappiest looking stadium ever built. WTF where they thinking when they designed the stupid thing?

 

[GoogieMan]

do they sell fly lice in that monstrosity to??

 

[Boonz]

hmmmm..... looks like an upside down wicker basket with a hole in the bottom... lol i saw the pics of the stadium before they bent the top bits of the steel down and it looked like a half finished birds nest