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# Olympic Architecture Fever
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/olympic-architecture-fever/
- Published: 2003-07-11T16:55:46.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-29T11:22:16.000Z
- Description: As months count down until 2008, Beijing is revealing more of its plans the summer games. This month the National Swimming Centre…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

As months count down until 2008, Beijing is revealing more of its plans the summer games. This month the National Swimming Centre Conceptual Designs were short-listed - the designs echo the sensational Herzog & De Meuron Stadium.

![](http://www.proteinmainframe.com/db/img/75x.jpg)

![](http://www.proteinmainframe.com/db/img/76x.jpg)

![](http://www.proteinmainframe.com/db/img/77x.jpg)

Construction is set to start in December and will be finished by the end of 2006\. Total investment is estimated at 830 million yuan (US$100 million). More info on the [Beijing Olympics website](http://www.beijing-olympic.org.cn/new%5Folympic/eolympic/2003-07-01/117.shtm?ref=protein.xyz). This pool will sit next to the Herzog & De Meuron Stadium which the Telegraph describes as: "The hub of the 2008 games will move stadium design from pragmatism into the realm of poetry. Without a sense of scale, it is at first hard to know what you are looking at. Could it be a schematic vision of some post-Bladerunner city, or a bizarre geological formation, a volcanic extrusion found in a remote desert? Is it the Quangle Wangle's hat? An oval form with a gaping central hole seems to be bulging out of the ground, rising slightly at two ends, held down only by a mass of curving, twisting lines that appear like a myriad ropes."

![](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2003/05/24/bfview24.jpg)

Large versions of the design [can be found here](http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/topic.cgi?forum=6&topic=51&ref=protein.xyz). Looking forward to the [Vancouver 2010](http://www.winter2010.com/?ref=protein.xyz) designs