Bird's Nest (National Stadium)

National Stadium, as many people call it"Bird's Nest", is located in the Olympic Park in Beijing. It is a new building for the 2008 Olympic Games, covering an area of 2.58 million square miters. The opening and closing ceremony, as well as track and field, men's football evens of Olympic Games and Paralympics Games were all held in the nest.

The figure structure of Beijing National Stadium is mainly formed of a huge steel structure, which is like a big door, and it has 24 trussed shores. The super face is like a saddle, with a 332.3 miters long major axis and 296.4 miters long minor axis. Its designers chose the"nest" as the theme for national stadium, without doing any excrescent works on it, just showing all the structure of this nest outside, as a result, it has formed a natural appearance of national stadium.

It is said that tourists have to come to visit the nest when touring the Olympic Park, for the nest seems like a nest gestating life or more like a cradle of human developing progress which makes people hopeful about future.