Wednesday, March 11, 2009

EXP1 - ARCHITECTURE I LOVE THE MOST - Water Cube







Water Cube is the National Aquatics Centre of China. It was built in 2008 and had been used for the 2008 Olympic Game as the swimming and diving games centre.

The idea of building it is from bubbles in soap foam which is called the Weaire-Phelan structure. For me, the most attractive part of it is the irregular shape of each little section. When they combine together, the overall visual image can be profect. The water color of Water Cube, blue, is able to be presented as a big natural crystal by the light from inside.

If you want me to use one word to describe it, it could be "mysterious".

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