| Olympic Green | |
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| 奥林匹克公园 | |
 The Olympic Green | |
 Interactive map of Olympic Green | |
| Type | Olympic Park |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Opened | March 2004; 21 years ago (2004-03) |
| Website | bjofp.cn |
TheOlympic Green (Chinese:奥林匹克公园;pinyin:Àolínpǐkè Gōngyuán;lit. 'Olympic Park') is anOlympic Park inChaoyang,Beijing,China. The three main facilities there include theNational Stadium (Bird's Nest),Water Cube, andNational Indoor Stadium.
Olympic Green was originally constructed for the2008 Summer Olympics and the2008 Summer Paralympics. Since then, the streets around the park have been used for an exhibitionstreet race of theFIA GT1 World Championship in 2011, after a race atGoldenport Park Circuit in the vicinity. It again served as an Olympic Park when Beijing hosted the2022 Winter Olympics and the2022 Winter Paralympics.
TheBeijing National Stadium (国家体育场) or "Bird's Nest" (鸟巢) is the centerpiece of this project. It hosted theopening andclosing ceremonies,athletics, andfootball finals of the Games. The stadium has room for 91,000 spectators, but the capacity was reduced to 80,000 after the Olympics. It also served as the site of the opening and closing ceremonies of the2022 Winter Olympics.
TheBeijing National Aquatics Center (国家游泳中心) or "Water Cube" (水立方) hosted theswimming,diving andsynchronized swimming events. It has a capacity of 6,000 (17,000 during the 2008 Olympics)and is located next to theNational Stadium.Was the curling venue during the2022 Winter Olympics.
TheBeijing National Indoor Stadium (国家体育馆) or "the Fan" held thehandball,artistic gymnastics andtrampolining events. With a capacity of 19,000, it was the main indoor arena used during the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics,as the venue was the main ice hockey venue.
TheBeijing National Speed Skating Oval is an arena that was built for the2022 Winter Olympics.
TheOlympic Green Convention Center, a.k.a. theNational Convention Center (国家会议中心), heldfencing and, the shooting and fencing disciplines of themodern pentathlon. It is also used as theInternational Broadcast Center and the Main Press Center (for conventions and exhibitions). The center covers an area of 270,000 square meters.
TheOlympic Green Hockey Field hosted thefield hockey events. It covered an area of 11.87 hectares (29.3 acres) with 2 courts and could seat 17,000 spectators. It was deconstructed after the Games.
TheOlympic Green Archery Field hosted thearchery events. The field occupied 9.22 hectares (22.8 acres) and had a capacity of 5,000. It was dismantled after the Games.
TheOlympic Green Tennis Center (北京奥林匹克公园网球场) hosted thetennis andwheelchair tennis events. It has 16 courts (10 competition, 6 practice) and a capacity of 17,400. It opened on October 1, 2007.[1]
The park itself, outside of the venues constructed on the Olympic Green, hosted some of theathletic events at the 2008 Games. These included the racewalk events, where the loops occurred on the Olympic Green, and the portion of the marathons just outside the National Stadium.
The 2008 Summer Olympic Village housed all the participating athletes. The village is made up of 22 6-story buildings and 20 9-story buildings.
TheDigital Beijing Building served during the Games as thedata center. It was the only building on the Green at the time of the Olympics that was not a sporting venue. Since then it has been converted into a museum and an exhibition space for digital technology companies.[2]
Chinese architect Pei Zhu designed the distinctive 57-metre-high (187 ft), 11-story building near the Aquatic Centre and Convention Center. At the time of the Games, it was the only major facility designed by a Chinese architect.[3] It is meant to explore the relationship between digital forms and traditional Chinese aesthetics, meant to evoke a microchip from two of itsfaçades and abar code from the other two.[4]
The Ling Long Pagoda or Linglong Tower (Multifunctional Studio Tower[5]) (玲珑塔[6]) houses a part of theInternational Broadcast Center (IBC). It is located near the2008 Summer Olympics cauldron, on the northwest side of theBird's Nest Stadium.[7]
Completed and opened in 2014, the 246.8-metre-tall (810 ft)Beijing Olympic Tower's five circular roofs are meant to evoke the Olympic rings; although it has also been described as "a huge nail".[8] The design of the towers themselves were inspired by blades of grass.[9] It is the sixth tallest observation tower in China and the 22nd highest in the world.[8] Visitors can look out over the park and the entire city of Beijing from all five platforms, ranging from 186 to 243 metres (610 to 797 ft) in height.[9]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Although China's wealth owes much to its burgeoning export industries, for the Olympics the country has been contento to play the reverse role, buying the most futuristic architecture the rest of the world has to offer, rather than showcasing native talent. The work of Chinese architects has been relegated to a jumble of functional but uninspiring buildings ... An important exception is Digital Beijing, a control center on Olympic Green, designed by a Chinese firm, Studio Pei Zhu
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