What is the symbolic significance of "Bird's Nest"?

Symbolic significance of the Bird's Nest: It is a warm bird's nest woven by a stadium with a capacity of 65,438+10,000 people with a branch-like steel net, and it is the cradle for nurturing and caring for life.

The National Stadium (Bird's Nest) is located in the south of the central area of Beijing Olympic Park and is the main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The total area of the project is 265,438+0 hectares, and the audience seats are about 965,438+0,000. The opening and closing ceremonies, track and field competitions and football finals of the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held. After the Olympic Games, it became a large-scale professional place for Beijing citizens to participate in sports activities and enjoy sports entertainment, and became a landmark sports building and Olympic heritage.

The stadium was designed by Jacques Herzog, De Mellon, Ai Weiwei and Li Xinggang and built by Beijing Urban Construction Group. The shape of the stadium is like a "bird's nest" and cradle that breeds life, and it entrusts human hope for the future. The designer did not do any unnecessary treatment to the site and exposed the structure, thus naturally forming the appearance of the building.

On February 24th, 2003, the project started +65438, and was completed in March, 2008, with a total cost of 2.267 billion yuan. As national landmark buildings, the main stadium and the national stadium of the 2008 Olympic Games have remarkable structural characteristics. The stadium is a super sports building and a large-scale sports venue. The design service life of the main structure is 100 years, the fire resistance rating is Grade I, the seismic fortification intensity is Grade 8, and the waterproof rating of underground engineering is 1.

20 14 In April, China Top Ten Contemporary Buildings Selection Committee preliminarily selected 20 buildings from more than 0/000 national landmark buildings, integrating four indicators of age, scale, artistry and influence. Finally, the top ten contemporary buildings came into being. Beijing Bird's Nest-National Stadium is one of the short-listed buildings. As the ice project venue of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the renovation project of the National Stadium will start in early 2020.

The National Stadium (the "Bird's Nest") is the main venue of the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games, track and field, football and other related activities. The interwoven stadium facade and geometric building base are integrated, just like "trees and roots" to form a huge architectural woven body.

The overall design of the National Stadium is novel and radical. Its appearance is like a bird's nest that breeds life, more like a cradle, and it places human hopes for the future. Therefore, it became the landmark building of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and won the world's attention.

The National Stadium is used to host major domestic international, regional and domestic events, as well as some non-traditional sports events, providing sports fans with opportunities to feel fresh sports culture. In addition to sports events, other large-scale activities, such as cultural performances, non-commercial government-sponsored large-scale activities and large-scale activities of private enterprises, will also be held in the National Stadium.

The National Stadium will create its own cultural and humanistic atmosphere. By attracting the best sports activities and performing arts institutions in China and abroad, excellent service and advanced management technology, the National Stadium will become the best large-scale sports activities and performance venue in China, and will also become a new window for other countries in the world to understand China.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-National Stadium