Beijing’s Olympic Ruins
Four years later, most of the sports facilities built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics have remained untouched since the extravagant closing ceremony. The Water Cube, the main stadium for aquatics during the Olympics, is now...
Jul 10, 2012
Four years later, most of the sports facilities built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics have remained untouched since the extravagant closing ceremony. The Water Cube, the main stadium for aquatics during the Olympics, is now...
Feb 6, 2010
A year and a half after the Olympics in Beijing, the impressive structures built for the event are left without a purpose. From the New York Times: In 2008, the Chinese built a ball field — boy, what a ball field — known...
Feb 2, 2009
Discovery Channel’s documentary “Beijing Airport” tells the story of why and how China vowed to build the world’s biggest airport in Beijing, posted by Chinasuperpower via Youtube. Below is a description...
Dec 12, 2008
Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, continues his guest-blogging for the New York Times’ Freakonomics blog with a trip to Beijing: One thing that struck me about the Olympic architecture is...
Oct 20, 2008
In another controversy surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Liu Zhihua, the man who oversaw Olympic building construction and was charged with corruption, now faces a suspended death sentence for two years. His offenses...
Aug 27, 2008
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman writes: As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t...
Aug 7, 2008
Spiegel Online profiles a new book of photography by Straits Times journalist Chua Chin Hon: Chua Chin Hon runs the office of Singapore’s Straits Times. As a journalist, Chua has documented Beijing’s dizzying...
Aug 4, 2008
The New York Times continues its paper-wide China coverage with a review of the so-called Bird’s Nest stadium by architecture critic Nicholai Ouroussoff: Designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de...
Jul 16, 2008
Vanity Fair has yet another story about the architectural marvels going up in Beijing in time for the Olympic Games: Just as many of New York City’s most iconic landmarks rose in breathtakingly brief succession a century ago,...
Jun 24, 2008
A couple of recent articles have highlighted the destruction of Beijing to make way for Olympics construction. AP reports on the Qianmen neighborhood of the city: The redevelopment project, covering an area roughly 17 blocks...
Apr 26, 2008
The Washington Post reports on Beijing residents forced out of their homes to make way for Olympics construction. The report includes a video: Less than four months before the Summer Games open, the forced relocations in Beijing...
Apr 15, 2008
National Geographic has a feature on the new architectural innovations being built in Beijing in preparation for the Olympics: Wang and his crew are part of an army of largely unskilled workers, more than a million strong, that...
Apr 14, 2008
Beijing is gearing up clean-up efforts in the run-up to the Olympics. Officials laid out an ambitious series of measures on Monday that will freeze construction projects, slow down steel production and shut down quarries in and...
Mar 29, 2008
The New York Times looks at the American companies that are pouring into Beijing to fill the retail space created by the city’s Olympics makeover: With the new supply of high-quality real estate, more American companies...
Mar 24, 2008
From Los Angeles Times: It’s the building Beijing residents love to hate. The dome of the new National Center for the Performing Arts glows luminescent as it emerges from a reflecting pool like a pearl or a rising sun. At...
Mar 12, 2008
The Guardian looks at a new generation of Chinese architects who are creating their own style that incorporates traditional Chinese aesthetics: Say the words “new Chinese architecture” and what springs to mind?...
Mar 8, 2008
The Motley Fool gives a run-down of the major infrastructure projects in China slated for the coming three years, including the recently opened Terminal 3 at the Beijing airport: China’s Olympian infrastructure plans...