Photo: Water Cube, by kaboem

Posted by Cindy Carter | Oct 19, 2021

Photo: Water Cube, by kaboem

The exterior "bubbles" of Beijing’s famed Water Cube aquatic center, which will host curling in the 2022 Winter Olympics, are illuminated in red and gold, rather than in the blue hues that prevailed during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Water Cube, by kaboem (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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