Watercube Opens

Architect Chris Bosse (now: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA)) shares these photographs of the Watercube (aka National Swimming Center) in Beijing, China by PTW/CCDI/Arup, which recently made its official opening with "The Good Luck Beijing" Open.

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[Watercube in the foreground with Herzog & de Meuron's "Bird's Nest" beyond | photograph by Chris Bosse]

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[Watercube right and Bird's Nest left | photograph by Chris Bosse]

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[Watercube at night; compare with the project rendering of the same view | photograph by Chris Bosse]

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[Closer view of the ETFE facade | photograph by Chris Bosse]

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[Inside the "bubbles" | photograph by Chris Bosse]

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[The bright interior | photograph by Chris Bosse]

More photos are available on Chris's Flickr set (with more on the rest of Flickr). Many thanks to Chris for sharing!

Comments

  1. Pretty damn cool. I love the 'randomness' of the 'bubbles'.

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  2. Nice building. But it's clear that it's designed with the nightimage in mind.

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  3. Yeah, in the daytime, the Watercube has an unfortunate resemblance to a mattress.

    Actually, I do think the buildings are beautiful and visionary--but only when I try not to think the conditions under which they were built, by all available accounts, have been fairly dangerous and miserable for construction workers.

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  4. good architecture is always a painful task for contractors

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  5. Amazing structures,You can see more amazing structure of building on earth with the free version of earth explorer

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  6. i love bubble!that's a real good architecture structure.
    i take this picture and put on my blog.i will also link you.
    great website
    love mary

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  7. You can see even more in the exhibition coming to Cincinnati from the V&A in London called China Design Now - opens this October. Check it out www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

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