The designers of the Bird's Nest are Pierre de Mellon, Li Xinggang and Herzog. Pierre de Mellon, a Swiss, is a master of architecture and the winner of the 200 1 Pritzker Architecture Award. It is famous for designing the Bird's Nest, the main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, with Herzog. Li Xinggang, deputy chief architect of China Architectural Design and Research Institute, has won more than 20 international and domestic awards, including the British World Architecture Nomination Award, the Asian Architecture Promotion Award and the China Architecture Art Award.
Bird's Nest Design Background
The birth of the Bird's Nest has gone through a long and arduous process, which is the result of creation and design by architects and engineers, the object of discussion and wrestling by all parties, and the result of the confluence of political, social, cultural, technical and economic factors. This is one of the most special architectural events in contemporary China. The Bird's Nest, the main stadium of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, is an important contemporary architectural work in Beijing, China and even the world.