See delightful animated birds celebrate the opening of the Coca-Cola "Bird's...
February 2006The small Thai town of Pattani has gone to the birds -- literally. The town's economy is booming after residents started collecting bird saliva. Sea Swift nests, used to make birds' nest soup and made from hardened saliva, sell for $2,000 a kg. A few years ago, the birds inexplicably started colonising Pattani. Now, all the residents have got in on the act. As one resident states: Birds Nest Soup -...
The Beijing National Stadium (traditional Chinese: 北京國家體育場; simplified Chinese: 北京国家体育场; Hanyu Pinyin: Běijīng Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng; Tongyong Pinyin: Běijīng Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng), also known as the National Stadium,[1] or the China Beijing...
From http://tui.cn/sexybeijing/http://www.sexybeijing.tv Ai Weiwei came up with the woven design of the Bird's Nest Stadium, the centerpiece of Beijing's 2008 Olympic games. As a respected architect, artist and outspoken social critic, Ai is a true Beijing renaissance man. In this episode of the Hard Hat Show, Mia Lee talks to Ai about the Bird's Nest, architecture and Beijing's helter skelter development of recent years.This episode is sponsored by TUI, click below to find out about traveling to Beijing with TUI:http://tui.cn/sexybeijing/ Ai Weiwei:...
The radical design of China's National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, has captured the imagination of many in Beijing.One of them is a 70-year-old Chinese photographer who spent hours painstakingly documenting the construction of the unique structure from day one. Obsessing over...
The Beijing National Stadium (traditional Chinese: 北京國家體育場; simplified Chinese: 北京国家体育场; Hanyu Pinyin: Běijīng Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng; Tongyong Pinyin: Běijīng Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng), also known as the National Stadium,[1] or the China Beijing...
Trailer for documentary about two Swiss star architects on two very different projects: the national stadium for the Olympic summer games in Peking 2008 and a city area in the provincial town of Jinhua, China. Bird's Nest -...
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David Attenborough examines the social weavers, who live together in multimple nests. From the BBC. Social weaver...
An artist has built a giant bird's nest on the side of an office block in Brussels, Belgium. Benjamin Verdonck lived in the giant art installation entitled Giant Bird's Nest...
A Bird's Nest/God In Uswww.bl5h0p.net A Bird's Nest/God...
Chris Bosh shows what it's like to walk into the Olympic Bird's nest Chris Bosh BLOG -...
For more videos and games check out our new website at http://www.sesamestreet.org launching Aug 11, 2008.In this video Mommy bird mistakes Grover for a baby bird.Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world. Sesame Street:...
Demonstrated at AIA 2008 by auto•des•sys•inc. in form•Z Bird's Nest Demo...
A video for www.TheBirdsNest.co.nrA site for St. Louis Cardinals. The Birds Nest
2 Songs From Dano. Dan O'Hara...
Demonstrated at AIA 2008 by auto•des•sys•inc. in form•Z Bird's Nest Demo...
Swiss adults seem to like tree houses almost as much as children, if the popularity of the 'little nest' is anything to go by. An enterprising carpenter in Le Locle near the French border built the country's first ever tree top bed and breakfast in 2002. As demand has outstripped supply, he is now expanding his empire. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt) Bird's Nest
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The venues are built, the athletes are arriving in Beijing. Now performers are going through the paces ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony Aug. 8 at the iconic 'Bird's Nest' stadium. Olympics...
Jan. 17 - Thais turn to a new sort of farming - with apartment blocks for birds, prized for their nests.One housing unit can contain up to 20,000 birds -- but it takes 150 birds to make one kilogram of birds nest, meaning the housing blocks are a long-term investment. ''Birds nest...
Anyone can hire fancy famous foreign architects; but few can ... --CCTV China Central Television HQ building, Bird's Nest -- Bird's Nest the National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Beijing Olympics http://www.bbzine.com/3lue3eams/bluebeams.htmlBeijing Modern Architecture Guide -- China Architectural Tour --Rem Koolhaas OMA Ove Arup CCTV Building Headquarters China State TV Television Tower Jacques Herzog Pierre de Meuron Ai Weiwei Beijing National Stadium Norman Foster PEK BCIA T3 Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3 -- Cost Control VE Renzo Piano RPBW NYT New York Times Building Manhattan headquarters Santiago Calatrava Chicago Spire Fordham -- the drill bits -- can't get over the 20th century totalitarian authoritarian communist capitalist ? -- get milk! -- der spiegel -- western international press coverage -- politicisation of aesthetics and architectural criticism -- ... [*] Trojan Bird's...
The 3.5 billion yuan iconic stadium opened its doors to the public for the first time this week. On show were athletic test events and tickets sold out quickly. Athletics take...
Starting a fire with a bow drill is very easy with an abandoned bird's nest. Start a fire with bow drill fire starter and a bird's nest using the primitive fire starting tips in this free video. Starting a Fire...
Learn how to do a bird's nest on the steel rings in this kids gymnastics & tumbling free video clip, with advanced acrobatics techniques & gymnastic moves. Kids Gymnastics &...
Check out the incredible architecture of the Beijing Olympics Bird's Nest, up close, inside and out.  (Note: no footage of any Olympic competitions were used.)...http://www.groundreport.com/Sports/Beijing-Olympics-Birds-Nest Beijing Olympics...
Animated birds take on an Olympian task for Coke.Client: Coca-ColaTitle: Bird's Nest StadiumAgency: Wieden+Kennedy, AmsterdamProduction Company: Partizan FilmsDirector: Thomas Hilland (live action), Eric Lerner (animation) Coca-Cola: Bird's...
Trailer for documentary about two Swiss star architects on two very different projects: the national stadium for the Olympic summer games in Peking 2008 and a city area in the provincial town of Jinhua, China. Bird's Nest -...
Demonstrated at AIA 2008 by auto•des•sys•inc. in form•Z Bird's Nest Demo...
http://damnhotmusic.comThe 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event which is being held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from August 8 (except football, which started on August 6) to August 24, 2008. A total of 10,500 athletes are expected to compete in 302 events in 28 sports, one event more than was on the schedule of the 2004 games.[2] The 2008 Beijing Olympics will also mark the third time that Olympic events will have been held in the territories of two different National Olympic Committees (NOC), as the equestrian events are being held in Hong Kong.The Olympic games were awarded to Beijing after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001. The official logo of the games, titled Beijing Olympics...
Jesse and Jo visit the construction site of the National Stadium (or Bird's Nest), where the 2008 Summer Olympics will kick off in August. Few foreign news organizations have been able to gain access to the site. Jo and Jesse chat directly with the migrant workers responsible for its construction. The Bird's Nest
The Beijing National Stadium, also known as the bird's nest will be the main track and field stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics and will be host to the Opening and Closing ceremonies. In 2002 Government officials engaged architects worldwide in a design competition. Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron collaborated with ArupSport and China Architecture Design & Research Group to win the competition. The stadium will seat as many as 100,000 spectators during the Olympics, but this will be reduced to 80,000 after the games. It has replaced the original intended venue of the Guangdong Olympic Stadium. The stadium is 330 metres long by 220 metres wide, and is 69.2 metres tall. The 250,000 square metre (gross floor area) stadium is to be built with 36 km of unwrapped steel, with a combined weight of 45,000 tonnes. The stadium will cost up to 3.5 billion yuan (422,873,850 USD/ 325,395,593 EUR). The ground was broken in December 2003, and construction started in March 2004, but was halted by the high construction cost in August 2004.In the new design, the roof of the stadium had been omitted from the design. Experts say that this will make the stadium safer, whilst reducing construction costs. The construction of the Olympic buildings will continue once again in the beginning of 2005.In depth The stadium's appearance is one of synergy, with no distinction made between the facade and the superstructure. The structural elements mutually support each other and converge into a grid-like formation - almost like a bird's nest with its interwoven twigs. The spatial effect of the stadium is novel and radical, yet simple and of an almost archaic immediacy, thus creating a unique historical landmark for the Olympics of 2008.The stadium was conceived as a large collective vessel, which makes a distinctive and unmistakable impression both from a distance and when seen from up close. It meets all the functional and technical requirements of an Olympic National Stadium, but without communicating the insistent sameness of technocratic architecture dominated by large spans and digital screens.Visitors walk through this formation and enter the spacious ambulatory that runs full circle around the stands. From there, one can survey the circulation of the entire area including the stairs that access the three tiers of the stands. Functioning like an arcade or a concourse, the lobby is a covered urban space with restaurants and stores that invite visitors to stroll around. Just as birds stuff the spaces between the woven twigs of their nests with a soft filler, the spaces in the structure of the stadium will be filled with inflated ETFE cushions. Originally, on the roof, the cushions were to be mounted on the outside of the structure to make the roof completely weatherproof, but the roof has been omitted from the design in 2004.While the rain was to be collected for rainwater recuperation, the sunlight was to filter through the translucent roof, providing the lawn with essential ultraviolet radiation. On the facade, the inflated cushions will be mounted on the inside of the structure where necessary, e.g. to provide wind protection. Since all of the facilities -- restaurants, suites, shops and restrooms -- are all self-contained units, it is possible to do largely without a solid, enclosed facade. This allows for natural ventilation of the stadium, which is the most important aspect of the stadium's sustainable design.The sliding roof was an integral part of the stadium structure. When it was to be closed, it would have converted the stadium into a covered arena; however, the sliding roof was eliminated in an effort to cut costs and increase overall safety of the radical new structure. Beijing National...
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The Beijing National Stadium (traditional Chinese: 北京國家體育場; simplified Chinese: 北京国家体育场; Hanyu Pinyin: Běijīng Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng; Tongyong Pinyin: Běijīng Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng), also known as the National Stadium,[1] or the China Beijing...
Recorded from the media bus going back to the hotel after a long day's work at the Beijing Olympics.Song: Water Cube/Bird's...
Official Top 5 Countries (based on medal count)Country - Medals1. USA - 1102. CHINA - 1003. RUSSIA - 724. BRITAIN - 475. AUSTRALIA - 46Beijing Olympics has ended... XD 2008 Beijing...

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