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What Can Architecture Learn From Nature?

A leaf unfolds, its parts self-assembling from a slurry of nutrients, using ancient blueprints encoded on a molecular level to spread into a photosynthesizing, thermal regulating, pest-resistant and water-repelling surface. Our greatest technologies look mild compared to such simple, integrated eloquence. To modify an adage from Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from life. Life has had millions of years to finely-tune mechanisms and structures (such as Read more [...]

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Beijing National Stadium

The Beijing National Stadium, popularly known as the "Bird's Nest"because of its design, is a stadium under construction on the Olympic Green in Beijing, China that is scheduled for completion in March, 2008. The stadium will host the main track and field competitions for the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. It is located right next to the Beijing National Aquatics Centre. Design In 2002, Government officials engaged architects worldwide in a design competition. Read more [...]

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