Beijing Olympics: Bird's Nest now ready to be filled with "eggs"

The structural elements support each other and converge into a grid formation, just like a bird's nest with interlocking branches and twigs.Beijing indeed gave a new definition in the word, Bird's nest

Designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, global engineering consultant
ARUP and China Architecture Design and Research Group, the bird's nest is indeed a site to behold.

42,000 tons of steel and hundreds of tons of concrete went into creating the main stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics.The main body of the stadium is composed of 24 columns of trusses, which surround the bowl-shaped stands in the stadium.


some fast facts about the nest:

Name: Beijing Olympic Stadium
Scheduled inauguration: 2008
Building costs: $500 million
Capacity: 80,000 seats (100,000 during the Olympic games)