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Name: Bird's Nest
Address: Beijing, China
The Bird's Nest Stadium, the National Stadium, is located in the south of the central area of Beijing Olympic Park, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. It is the main stadium of the 29th Olympic Games in 2008. It covers an area of 21 hectares and has about 91000 seats for spectators.
The Bird's Nest Stadium has become a world-famous sports building with its unique shape and structural design. Its main structure is mainly composed of a huge portal steel frame, a total of 24 truss columns. The top of the building is saddle-shaped, with a long axis of 332.3 meters, a short axis of 296.4 meters, a height of 68.5 meters at the highest point and a height of 42.8 meters at the lowest point. The stadium shell uses environmentally friendly materials that can be used as fillers.
During the Olympic Games, the Bird's Nest Stadium held the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, track and field competitions and football finals. After the Olympic Games, it has become a large-scale professional place for Beijing citizens to participate in sports activities and enjoy sports entertainment, and has become a landmark sports building and Olympic heritage.
With its unique shape and excellent engineering design, the Bird's Nest Stadium has become a treasure of sports architecture in China, and it is also an important place for domestic and foreign tourists to visit and experience sports culture.