Olympic Park — The Bird's Nest, Water Cube & Beijing 2008 Legacy
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Olympic Park — The Bird's Nest, Water Cube & Beijing 2008 Legacy

Beijing Olympic Park (北京奥林匹克公园 — the park in the Chaoyang district of northern Beijing that hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and was also the main venue cluster for the 2022 Winter Olympics — the only city in the world to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics): the National Stadium (国家体育场 — the 'Bird's Nest', designed by Herzog & de Meuron with artist Ai Weiwei as artistic consultant, capacity 91,000) and the National Aquatics Center (国家游泳中心 — the 'Water Cube' / 'Ice Cube', now used as a curling venue) are the architectural centrepieces.

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