Here are a few shots of Herzog & de Meuron’s National Stadium in Beijing, China by architectural photographer Iwan Baan.
The stadium, completed in March, will host track and field events and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games from 8-24 August.
All images are © Iwan Baan and used with permission.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
July 30th, 2008 at 12:56 am
an impressive humungous ball of ribbon
July 30th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Free Tibet
July 30th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Great Job Guys!
July 30th, 2008 at 3:45 am
i like it
July 30th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Stim gila tengok gambar.
My goodness.
July 30th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Its beautiful but the structure seems overburdened superflously !!!.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:02 am
wow blue sky in Beijing! what day was that?
July 30th, 2008 at 7:01 am
sweet!!! never seen these images before…
July 30th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Bozo Says:
Free Tibet
i love people writing “free tibet” on a made-in-china keyboard
July 30th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Most impressive!!!
I don’t think that the structure is overdimensioned, it’s just that it shows the inner concept which “propelled” the development of the buiding. I mean, the frame is an integral part of the project.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:36 am
awesome!
cant wait for the 8th!
July 30th, 2008 at 8:39 am
great work, these architects are on the fore front of innovative design.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:05 am
One of the best statium design I have ever seen!! No one will top that!!
July 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am
matt Says:
Bozo Says:
Free Tibet
WHO SAYS FREE TIBET,WHO WILL BE UNDER A CURSE
July 30th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Free Tibet
i can write “free tibet” … my keyboard is made-in- germany
July 30th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Seriously, aren’t they using too much steel here? Am overkill to achieve so little?
July 30th, 2008 at 11:03 am
first image - object hanging down from ceiling
is that a light or a loudspeaker?????
July 30th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Fabulous! I to wonder how rational the structure is. Are their a lot of superfluous members to generate the thicket like appearance? Looking at the underside of the canopy, I have no idea what holds it up.
July 30th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Credit should be payed where credit is due -
Olafur Eliasson 1999 (5 dimensional pavilion): http://www.olafureliasson.net/selected_works/sw_12_1.html
July 30th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Anyone catch the documenatry of the making of this on National Geographic- ‘Mega Structures’.
The engineers (Arup) deserve a medal for this. They had to create a new type of steel to make it fit for construction.
July 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Nice work. But it’s a shame that it’s located in China…
FREE TIBET! NOW!
NO CENSORSHIP!
July 30th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Where do I get some of this free Tibet,
I’ve never had a country of my own,
I wouldn’t mind trying a little.
July 30th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
wonderful architecture…build it grand, build it mighty, build like the romans…no ‘plastic’ structure, then free tibet!
July 30th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
nice.. photoshopped skies though..
free tibet.. free speech.. freedom…
July 30th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
if the stadium is finished…why do we keep seeing the same 3D renders over and over ?
July 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I am so sad to see those too-easy-political-labels everywhere. Now even in my favorite architecture website!
Please, there are plenty of places where you can show your sense of justice.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Big star architects wasting their clients money on their own wet dreams. Welcome to China.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
One flew over the Cuckoo’s Bird Nest
July 30th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Me Says:
Anyone catch the documenatry of the making of this on National Geographic- ‘Mega Structures’.
The engineers (Arup) deserve a medal for this. They had to create a new type of steel to make it fit for construction.
Yea, engineers are always behind the curtain, doing backstage work. Yet they’re the ones who realize things. Cheers to ARUP.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
It’s sad anyway to see all mega-projects in China designed by western architects. It’s sorta like declaring “We can only produce cheap, low-graded products. Let the west do the thinkings!”
There are so many great designers and architects in china.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:15 am
I have to speak to some of guys above you are rubbish.
Tibet was, is, will always be a part of China. Pls learn your poor world history again and then you can self-questioning here.
Can I say FREE ALASKA here. Free Talking here
Think about it, UNCLE US!!!
July 31st, 2008 at 7:40 am
beijing is smoggy por pabor!
July 31st, 2008 at 9:07 am
are u stupid or what?
is there any censorship in what i said?
just try to consider your relationship to this country you’re always blaming
anyway
“Credit should be payed where credit is due” is more for asiatic tradition for weaving basket than for Olafur Eliasson, try to have some wider references
people discussing about “f*ing western architects building in China” might consider that this is also a clever way from China to say hello to the rest of the world
but the rest of the world is not clever enough to understand that kind of merely marketing strategies and only thinks “ooh, we stole their job”
Jacques Herzog about the grand opening:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,569011,00.html
July 31st, 2008 at 10:10 am
What happen to my comment?
July 31st, 2008 at 11:16 am
Free Tibet!
WOrld Famous Swiss Architects Represents China Perfectly.
Besides, The bulding is awsome… awsome..
July 31st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
free american, free austrian, north ireland, free south american -
when applying those ignorant concept over this world, & not just China (fair play), world will be in chaos
July 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
To those “Free Tibet” shouters, cut your fingers and free yourselves from your single cell brains. Unresponsible ranting sounds so cheap…
July 31st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Newsflash for elenele: tibet wants to be free….its an irrelevant issue what the past relationship between the two countries was…..
FREE TIBET!!!
..also, yes….hats off to ARUP….they’re doing some amazing work nowadays in the world of architectural engineering!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:32 pm
c’est propre! (re One: you mean awesome I guess)
July 31st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
you all sound like a 11yo girl screaming “I LOVE BRITNEEEY”
FREE TIBEEEEET
FREE TIBEEEEET
FREE TIBEEEEET
i hope tibet would be free one day only to hear your silence
(but it will be hard for you to found another reason to fight)
anyway this is obviously the best olympic game stadium ever
close to it sits the wonderful Roger Taillibert’s Montreal stadium
far away is Athens’ Santiago Calatrava crap
July 31st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
July 31st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Not that I’m against spending client’s money on our dreams, for we are professionals on spending other people’s money, but I miss seeing this hercule’s job of structure from the inside of the stadium - not only from the acess area - it’s more of a skin, it could be more. I still prefer Souto de Moura’s stadium in Braga, Portugal. With a rock and stone.
And free California.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
amaizing work! the best stadium i v ever seen
August 1st, 2008 at 10:54 am
Yet another masterpeice …….
This piece of architecture demonstrated that we are all being nested by all our governments.. feeding us with untrue stories and filtered informations… lets face it.. there is no places on earth without restrictions such as taxation, right to medical care, right to freedom etc … And please think, without restrictions & orders, the world would be ruled by scums… and future would be rather grim…
Free humans
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 am
a great leap for architecture! only CCTV can beat this now. =)
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
Is there now. It has been done. For all to see. For posterity!!
Any chance to know how much H&DM fee was?
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
FREE TIBEEEEET？ 做梦！！！
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
its not a sovereignty issue.. its abt respecting basic human rights.. able to live in peace and not get beaten up by those who claim authority over you..
August 4th, 2008 at 5:56 am
free tibet huh?
haha, silly foreigners
tell you what, 99% tibet locals don’t want a liberation from China
you guys really should go and visit the place
people living happily until the riots happened
which those riots are not made by the locals!!!
just dalilama got a nobel prize doesn’t he’s always right
wake up man
anyway i am a hong konger
and don’t like communist either
but why blame China?
August 4th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Free tibet whatever a Chinese say!
Swiss architecture is great.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:39 am
“Johanna Says:
July 30th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Credit should be payed where credit is due -
Olafur Eliasson 1999 (5 dimensional pavilion): http://www.olafureliasson.net/selected_works/sw_12_1.html”
- Word
August 8th, 2008 at 4:10 am
well done,great design.
go hell,”free tibet”,ignorant remarks
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE TRUETH
FREE Bayern
August 8th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Free Puerto Rico. Free Guam.
Seriously people. Read your history.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am
oh by the way. Great design HdM. It makes sense it’s in China… only the Chinese would step up to the plate and fund architects like HdM, Rem, and Zaha to build what they REALLY want to build.
… Free Hawaii as well.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Bozo, Honkie, matt, Zenza,One —————Hello
Tibet will never be free, that’s solid truth. and free Tibet is only your day time dream.
so Face it, you bunch of bugger, or DO sth. apart from being bully in cyber space.
Cheap courage.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
it is unethical for Herzog & de Meuron to hurt tibetan’s feelings.
Architects should only build in……..mmm they shouldnt build anywhere but their backyards…… backyards? of houses? shit who built those? specialy the ones in USA…
Nature should destroy humanity for good. Lets just die on a forever going boycot of human activity.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:45 am
what about the dead workers and smashed homes?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:12 am
FREE WILLY!
Got to see this stadium (behind a wall of security mind you) and it really was impressive, impressive enough to sway my opinion on it. I’m really interested on how the interior works though, you really don’t get much of an impression of it from outside.
I don’t really understand people’s comments about the sky in the photos, it looks like a typical day there…?
August 26th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
its great just great!!!!!…