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- Great Walls
- June 2, 2008
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- In this issue of the magazine, Paul Goldberger writes about the buildings commissioned for Beijing’s Olympic Games. Here is a portfolio of photographs by Iwan Baan of the National Stadium and the National Aquatics Center, two buildings that, Goldberger writes, “are as innovative as any architecture on the planet.”
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The beams in the steel lattice surrounding the Beijing National Stadium, nicknamed the Bird’s Nest, are mostly structural, not decorative.