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Got a great message from Jonathan Miller over at Icarus Films about a special promotion they are running for an intriguing-looking film, Bird’s Nest by Christoph Schaub & Michael Schindhelm. The film follows the 5-year effort of architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuronto as they build the new 100,000 seat stadium for the Olympic Games. The cool part is that the film had its US premiere at Silverdocs...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,569011,00.html Star architect Jacques Herzog, the man behind the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing, tells SPIEGEL his arena is a subversive place where people can meet in locations not easily monitored by officials. He also defends his decision to build for a regime criticized for human rights violations [click the title of this post to read the interview]....
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 ...
In 2002, the Chinese Government Government officials opened a global design competition for the Peking Olympics Stadium . With their entry Numbered B11 Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron collaborated with ArupSport and China Architecture Design & Research Group to win the competition. Contemporary Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, is also the Artistic Consultant for design. The above
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 ...
Star architect Jacques Herzog, the man behind the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing, tells SPIEGEL his arena is a subversive place where people can meet in locations not easily monitored by officials. He also defends his decision to build for a regime criticized for human rights violations. Go to news source
Vanity Fair has yet another story about the architectural marvels going up in Beijing in time for the Olympic Games: 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 ...
Now that Euro 2008 has passed, I’m watching the countdown for the Olympics in Beijing. It might start feeling like China-overkill, but should be interesting. Here’s Beijing’s new Olympic Stadium designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. It can seat 91,000 and it looks like an enormous bird’s nest made of twiglike beams. [...]
Basle, Switzerland - Basle is a city of 160,000 inhabitants, including the world's top tennis player Roger Federer and Swiss striker Alexander Frei. The city is also home to St Jakob-Park stadium, the main venue of the Euro 2008 games in Switzerland....
Geneva, Switzerland - This summer's Euro 2008 finals take place in eight venues across Austria and Switzerland, with four stadiums in each country. The tournament kicks off at St Jakob Park in Basle on June 7 when the Swiss team take on the Czech Rep...
An industrial park in the heart of Europe does not at first sight appear to be the appropriate place for risk architecture; however, both technical innovation and artistic exploration are aspects of a desire to experiment that has resulted in an amazing collection of signature architecture in Weil am Rhein. From the dynamic forms of the Vitra Design Museum by the Californian Frank Gehry or the rushing...
For China, a successful staging of the Olympics is a question of good grace, manners and proper etiquette. All round the country, young men and women are being trained to put China's best face forward when 500,000 foreigners and two million visitors from within China arrive for the 29th Olympiad, which begins in the city of Beijing on 8 August.
Madrid has unveiled it's latest addition to the global arts scene in the form of the CaixaForum, a Herzog & de Meuron designed contemporary art museum housed in a converted 1899 power station. Costing $94m the museum was funded by the Caixa Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Spanish bank Caixa d'Estalvis, and one of [...]
