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full and free download (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will commence in August, with many events to take place in the brand new, 100,000-seat National Stadium. But 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...
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China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
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 Meuron, the stadium lives up to its aspiration as a global landmark. Its elliptical latticework shell, which has ...
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The "Bird's Nest", a web of stainless steel struts moulded into a bowl, is already the de facto logo for the Olympics and will soon be the world's most familiar piece of avant garde architecture. It's two Swiss creators make a formidable team
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The Beijing Olympics haven’t yet begun, but the event already has its signature image: the Olympic stadium designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The Beijing Olympics haven't yet begun, but the event already has its signature image: the Olympic stadium designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Just as many of New York City's most iconic landmarks rose in breathtakingly brief succession a century ago, Beijing has been re-inventing itself since 2001 with a rush of showstopping buildings by internationally renowned architects: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's National Stadium, Steven Holl's Linked Hybrid complex, Rem Koolhaas's China Central Television headquarters, and Norman Foster's...
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Material Interest (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Gripped by 8/8/08 fever? Us neither, but architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are. The duo's design was chosen for Beijing's new Olympic Stadium, which is profiled tonight on National Geographic's Man-Made. Of note: The superstructure can seat 91,000,...
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Inhabitat (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
When the Miami Art Museum required a new headquarters they decided to hire famous Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. They were expecting an incredible design worthy of a cosmopolitan city such as Miami. What they got from Herzog & de Meuron can only be described as the modern interpretation of the Hanging [...]
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The Moment (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
A chronicle of the unprecedented shift towards urban living, as told through stats, photos and essays ...
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Abu Dhabi has recently announced plans to turn itself into a sort of Arabian Left Bank, with cultural venues designed by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Jean Nouvel. Beijing, meanwhile, is completing the giant steel bird's nest of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's Olympic Stadium, and also has Paul Andreu's titanium-egg National Theater, and Rem Koolhaas' unusual state television headquarters, which...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Abu Dhabi has recently announced plans to turn itself into a sort of Arabian Left Bank, with cultural venues designed by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Jean Nouvel. Beijing, meanwhile, is completing the giant steel bird's nest of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's Olympic Stadium, and also has Paul Andreu's titanium-egg National Theater, and [...]
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 12/21/2007
Der Spiegel examines the master planning work of Albert Speers.
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World Architecture News (Free subscription) | 12/10/2007
The Miami Art Museum has released the first images of its new digs, under design by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Terrance Riley, the Museum's Director and the former Architecture Curator at MoMA, said the early release of the design was important to involve the public in the process. The new museum, to be located on Biscayne Bay, will almost quadruple the Museum's current size...
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Concierge.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2007
Next summer's Olympic Games are transforming the capital's skyline with a building spree of epic proportions. Condé Nast Traveler visits Beijing's new wonders and finds the city on the verge of its second golden age.
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