Bird's Nest Film Screening: Urbanism and the Olympics
Friday, Dec 13, 20137:47 AMEDT
| Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY
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Bird's Nest Film Screening: Urbanism and the Olympics Thursday, December 12, 2013, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Many events for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games took place in the brand new, 100,000-seat National Stadium. Design plans for this massive structure began in 2003, when Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were selected by the Chinese government to design the new stadium, which, because of its curved steel-net walls, was soon dubbed by locals as the "bird's nest." BIRD'S NEST chronicles this five-year effort, along with Herzog and de Meuron's design for a new city district in Jinhua, which included hotels, office and residential buildings. Both projects involved complex and often difficult negotiations and communications between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems. Herzog and de Meuron, the Basel-based architects, find themselves working with China's largest state construction company, Chinese artist and architect Ai Wei Wei, lawyers, and countless government bureaucrats. Speakers: Raj Patel, Principal, Arup Alkis Klimathianos, Senior Associate Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Organized by: Center for Architecture Price: Free for AIA members and students with valid ID; $10 for non-members Popcorn included! RSVP This program is related to the exhibition Practical Utopias: Global Urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo, on view from October 1, 2013 to January 18, 2014.
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