Arup's giant foaming Chinese puzzle box

By Thomas Lane and Thomas Lane2004-03-19T00:00:00

Source: ARUP/pendle thorp walker/china construction engineering corporation

Beijing's 2008 Olympic swimming stadium looks like a artifact from a dream: a giant box of glowing blue bubbles in which 17,000 people are concealed. Once you recover from the shock of seeing it, you start to wonder how anyone could possibly work out how to build it.

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