Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Beijing National Stadium

Accession Number: 
179488
Order Title: 
Archivision Addition Module FIVE--6,102 images
Type of View: 
generalView
View Title: 
Overall view, looking east, showing the full west flank from the promenade
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Addition Module FIVE
Culture: 
Chinese
Subject: 
Architecture and energy conservation
Subject: 
Olympics
Work Types: 
Architecture; sports buildings; stadiums
Preferred Title: 
Beijing National Stadium
Agent Display: 
Ai, Weiwei (Chinese environmental artist, born 1957); Herzog & de Meuron (Swiss architectural firm, founded 1978)
Date: 
2003-2008 (creation)
Materials: 
steel beams; concrete; modular turf system
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurement: 
7,811 m2 (area, turf field)
Alternate Title: 
Bird's Nest
Locations: 
Beijing, Beijing Shi, China
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Twenty-first century
Classification: 
Architecture