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Inside Herzog & de Meuron Bird’s Nest

By David Basulto — Filed under: Featured , Sports Architecture , , ,
 

We´ve seen tons of pictures of both the exterior and the inner court of Herzog & de Meuron’s bird nest in Beijing during the Olympics. But what we haven’t seen is the intermediate space inside the nest fibers, a space which looked amazing on the early renderings.

But thanks to Edgar Gonzalez, we can see the colorful inners of the Bird’s Nest through Manuel Ocaña’s Flickr.

Pictures after the break.

 

23 comments »

havison says:

that our great beijing

 
# September 1, 2008 at 09:25
Hans says:

wow! this is amazing!

 
# September 1, 2008 at 19:08
F001 says:

the interior is really fantastic.

 
# September 1, 2008 at 19:09
Kristoff says:

Having a totalitarian regime as a client makes for good Architecture… No varying end user groups to placate, and no conflicting “opinions” on design. Let’s just hope this project’s legacy and contribution to Architecture will be a positive one. Onlt time will tell…

 
# September 2, 2008 at 05:14
Baroque artist says:

hetog a de mero fantaiatstat neve sean. gret.

 
# September 2, 2008 at 21:59
jon says:

Very interesting statement Kristoff. I agree.

 
# September 3, 2008 at 04:59
Lite says:

More polluted than i thought it would be.

 
# September 3, 2008 at 09:26
critical cow says:

A singularly superlative masterwork.

Compare this with London’s ‘design by committee, ruined by bureaucracy’ Olympic architecture.

Well done HdeM and well done China.

Five MOOS.

 
# September 3, 2008 at 23:28
Kwo says:

it can be only realized in a duo conditions of both globalization and highly concentrated political power. Beijing is treating whole world while giving a promise for further improved politically, economically and environmentally. It welcomes international observation and help.

 
# September 4, 2008 at 08:35
Giuliano says:

Se ve bastante mas colorido de lo que me imaginaba, además debe sentirse muy bien caminar entre esas estructuras
Buenas fotos!

 
# September 9, 2008 at 10:10
the big black and white zebra says:

that external pic…

It’s a chinese soldiers cap?@!!!*!…
Now that’s contextualism, or theme park?

 
# September 10, 2008 at 03:04
tommytang says:

ye…But Beijing Olympic spend China 100Billian dollor…

 
# September 15, 2008 at 09:45
Michael says:

That is our great China

 
# September 19, 2008 at 05:08
Patrick Chitanie says:

Hello David,

Beautiful pictures but
do you now that Herzog
the ideas and everything
of the stadium has stolen
from a Dutchman.

So everything is fake what
they are saying.

Sincerely
Patrick

 
# October 19, 2008 at 07:24
nico says:

Patrick:

Can you explain a little more what your saying?
It would be interesting to see what that “Dutchman” has to show.

 
# October 19, 2008 at 11:33
Derek says:

I never thought about this before, but I wonder how the outside structure of the bird’s nest was made.

 
# February 6, 2009 at 20:13

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