The National Stadium in Beijing by architects Herzog & de Meuron has been awarded the RIBA Lubetkin Prize - an award given each year to the best building by an RIBA member built outside Europe.

Rogge described the Beijing National Stadium as "one of the world's new wonders" and a "fitting setting for an amazing Opening Ceremony." But despite dazzling the globe in 2008, a decade on and ...

Team China at the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022 Getty Images “The Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 is to show the world how people boldly rise to ...

Here are a few shots of Herzog & de Meuron's National Stadium in Beijing, China by architectural photographer Iwan Baan. The stadium, completed in March, will host track and field events and the ...

Beijing National Stadium, 2008 Capacity: 91,000 reduced to 80,000 Post Olympic use: very little significant use since 2008. Beijing Guo’an football club was scheduled to play at the stadium but ...

Matthias Hangst/Getty Images. President of China Xi Jinping greeted the crowd as the Opening Ceremony began at Beijing National Stadium. The country is under a microscope during the Games, not ...

China's new National Stadium, the centrepiece of the Beijing Olympics and better known as the Bird's Nest, has been opened to international media for the first time.

Reporting from Beijing — Beijing is hosting its own version of the Winter Olympics -- though the idea may be on thin ice. Inside the architectural wonder of the capital’s National Stadium ...

More National Aquatics Center, now known as the Ice Cube, in Beijing on April 2, 2021. AFP via Getty Images General view of the National Indoor Stadium during the 2007 Artistic Gymnastics ...

BEIJING, China, June 6, 2007— -- Looking down on the Beijing National Stadium, known as the "bird's nest" because of its bands of steel that resemble twigs and branches, one can see brightly ...