MIND BLOWING ARCHITECTURE MARVELS IN BEIJING

JAW DROPPING BUILDINGS IN BEIJING

Beijing is not just famous for Great Wall of China, Summer Palace and Tian an men Square. Beijing has a lot to offer . This is a city of amalgam with history of 5000 years with new modern innovative and functional architecture, while preserving historic buildings at the same time.

If it's your first time, there are a few of jaw-dropping architectures you should experience and appreciate this modern cosmopolitan city. Many of the attention getting architecture building are mainly focused on surrealism, avant-garde style and post modernism.

Lets Check out the structures that have shaped the city of Beijing into what it is today:

CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTER

The China World Trade Center is the largest building complex of Beijing consisting of around 14 components including hotels all of Shangri-La, shopping malls, offices, apartments,convention rooms, and an exhibition hall. The China World Trade Center has several components with three sky scrapers and 6 main parts.It is widely reputed as "The Place Where China Meets The World"

Height: 330 meters

Completed: 2010 A.D

GALAXY SOHO

SOHO China’s Galaxy SOHO is a large development comprising a compelling mix of office and retail space. With a total gross floor area of 328,204 square meters, the development is located on a 50,000 square meters lot in central Beijing. The gracefully merging dynamic form of the architectural complex creates a fluid and continuous internal space while establishing a striking and monumental presence .Full of imagination and surrealism, this unique design concept makes Galaxy SOHO a new architectural landmark in Beijing on par with the Bird's Nest National Stadium and the CCTV Tower.

Height: 60 meters

Completed: 2010 A.D.

BEIJING INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

TERMINAL 3

Terminal 3 was the largest airport terminal-building complex in the world to be built in a single phase, with 986,000 m² (10,610,000 sq ft) in total floor area at its opening.It features a main passenger terminal (Terminal 3C) and two satellite concourses (Terminal 3D and Terminal 3E), all of them five floors above ground and two underground, with the letters "A and B" omitted to avoid confusion with the existing Terminals 1 and 2.

Terminal 3 of the BCIA is currently the second-largest airport passenger terminal building in the world. Its title as the world's largest was surrendered on 14 October 2008 to Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3, which has 1,713,000 m² (18,440,000 sq ft) of floor space.

Completed: 2008 March

NATIONAL CENTER OF PERFORMING

ARTS

(National Grand Theater), and colloquially described as The Giant Egg (巨蛋), is an arts centre containing an opera house in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The exterior of the theater is a titanium-accented glass dome that is completely surrounded by a man-made lake. It is said to look like an egg floating on water, or a water drop. It was designed as an iconic feature, something that would be immediately recognizable.The dome measures 212 meters in east–west direction, 144 meters in north–south direction, and is 46 meters high.

Completed: December 2007

Height: 46.2 meter

BEIJING NATIONAL AQUATICS CENTER

The National Aquatics Center, also known colloquially as the Water Cube, was a major venue for the 2008 Olympic Games. After over four years of construction, the building was completed on January 28, 2008. The Water Cube comprises over 100,000 square meters of ETFE foils, making it the single largest, most complicated and most comprehensive ETFE structure in the world. The venue was used for swimming, diving, water polo and synchronized swimming competitions during the 2008 Olympic Games. In daylight, the Water Cube shines as a translucent blue spectacle; while at night, the glow of its LED bubbles creates a spectacular visual effect.

Completed: January 2008

BEIJING NATIONAL STADIUM

The National Stadium, as the main track and field stadium for the 2008 Olympics Games, is dubbed the "bird's nest" because of its innovative grid formation. The twig-like structural elements and the bowl-shaped roof are the masterpiece of the project, yet they posed great challenges for technicians and workers during construction. The stadium was begun in March 2004 and finished in March 2008. It was built with 36 kilometers of unwrapped steel, with a combined weight of 45,000 tonnes. Covering over 258,000 square meters, the stadium has at least 100,000 seats.

Completed: March 2008