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24 November 2009    architecture · bizarre   

Chinese farmers built a bamboo Bird’s Nest

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The Beijing National Stadium, nicknamed “The Bird’s Nest”, is no doubt an icon in the Middle Empire. But for some farmers close to Hangzhou, in the southeast of China, the Herzog & de Meuron structure was just too far away… so they built their own replica out of bamboo.

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bird's nest bamboo construction

Altogether, it took ten bamboo sculptors and roughly two weeks to put together the Bird’s Nest (at a 1:20 scale of the Beijing original) out of 800 pieces of bamboo.

bird's nest in bamboo china

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