Beijing National Aquatics Center
The Beijing National Aquatics Center (simplified Chinese: 北京国家游泳中心; traditional Chinese: 北京國家游泳中心), also known as the National Aquatics Center (国家游泳中心), better known as the Water Cube (水立方), is an aquatics center that was built alongside Beijing National Stadium in the Olympic Green for the swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Despite its nickname, the building is a cuboid (rectangular box), not a cube. Ground was broken on December 24, 2003, and the Center was completed and handed over for use on January 28, 2008. Swimmers at the Water Cube broke 25 world records during the 2008 Olympics.
Other Information
- City : Beijing, China
- Capacity : 17,000
- Built : 2004–2007
- Opened : 2008
- Architects : PTW Architects,CSCEC, CCDI, and Arup
Links
- Official website
- Beijing Water Cube video
- National Geographic Channel
- Arup in Beijing
- ptw architects
- ‘The Water Cube’, National Swimming Centre, Beijing, China
- Science News article describing the design of the building and the mathematics behind it
- cscec
- iconography
- Vector Foiltec homepage
- Beijing 2008 @ OOne
- News and Project Information on the Watercube, Beijing
- Conceptualising, planning and engineering the Water Cube
- Gallery, architecture images