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Beijing Olympic Park will be made the largest comprehensive community of
Beijing after the 2008 Olympic Games conclude. Multi-functional, combining
business and trade, office, exhibition, sports, exposition and entertainment
in one, the park will become a city part in token of Beijing's urban construction
in the new century.
Extension of ancient cultural vein
Beijing Olympic Park will sit at the north end of the axis of the metropolis.
The axis, the most important cultural vein of the city, masterly presents
a blend of urban artificial sights with natural scenery.
The axis of the ancient city starts from Yongdingmen in the south and ends
at the Bell Tower in the north over a distance of 7.8 kilometers. It takes
the Forbidden City as the axle center and passes through the whole ancient
city south to north. The buildings and space along the axis are invariably
symmetrical, mapping the fluctuant contour of the city. It is the cream
of urban architectural construction and urban
 planning
of Beijing in the history of architectural art at all times and in all countries.
The Olympic Park as planned is to be an expansion on the basis of an extension
from the axis to the north during the 11th Asian Games in 1990. It will
play an important role in completing the construction of the northern part
of the axis. Being at an end of the axis, it will form an imposing sight
of urban construction during the expansion, with the World Trade Center
projected as the centerpiece of architecture gracing the ground.
Annotations on "New Olympics"
To build the Olympic Park on the axis with the most cultural characteristics
of the city, beyond doubt, is another reflection of "Humanistic Olympics".
Besides, some events such as "marathon", "Iron man" and "beach volleyball"
will be held in the inner city for a large attendance of people. Especially
the marathon race will start from the Forbidden City and ends at the National
Stadium in the Olympic Park. One is Oriental and of great antiquity, and
the other Occidental, wholly modern. It is another integration of ancient
oriental culture with modern Olympics Games sports and a spectacular scene
of harmony of Chinese with Western cultures.
The Olympic Park will undoubtedly become the model of "Green Olympics".
The concept of "green" of the Park has far exceeded the category of "growing
trees, grass" and "landscaping". The Park will also pay attention to economizing
on use of energy and water, wind and solar energy, and use of environment-friendly
building materials.
Besides, the Olympic Park will give a full play to high and sophisticated
technology. Digital wide-band network communication, wireless transmit,
electronic information technology, Internet technology, intelligent technology,
etc, will be widely used in the Park.
Concentrated representation of "New Beijing"
If a city is likened to a symphonic music piece, with each urban establishment
as bobbing music note, every architectural complex will be part of a melody.
As the theme of the music piece of the city, the Olympic Park, thanks to
its large scale and important geographic location, will exert a tremendous
influence on the overall view of the city.
Beijing positions the Olympic Park on its Olympic plan as follows: carry
forward the traditional axial style of Beijing, meanwhile, show the urban
features and styles of "New Beijing" in the 21st Century through neoteric
and careful design of every venue or Games site.
In recent years, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stresses the
utilization of sports facilities after the Games conclude. It addresses
clearly that "the multi-functions and utilization of the sports facilities
after the Games conclude should be taken into consideration at the very
start". IOC asks the countries which bid for the Olympic Games to "submit
the plan of utilization and reuse of related facilities and buildings during
and after the Games".
Grand sports facilities are now under construction in the park and other
venues newly constructed and rebuilt will provide Beijing residents with
many new places for exercises and entertainment after the 2008 Olympic Games.
In addition, they will also provide more high-level hardware to China and
Beijing for handling other domestic and international events and with these
Beijing will be helped on the way to be built into a world metropolis.
A floor space of 360,000 square meters of apartment buildings is to be built
in the Olympic Village and with these a total of 17,600 athletes and team
officials will be accommodated. After the Olympic Games conclude in 2008,
the Village will be offered for sale in the way of commercial housing. No
doubt, it will be a model for future communal construction in Beijing in
the new century.
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the park will become a city part in token of Beijing's urban construction
in the new century. How will Beijing map out its Olympic Park? How will
it be made on blueprint heart of Beijing's "second capital"? All of these
have called worldwide attention. No matter what the park is going to be,
two major structures in the park, the Bird Nest and Water Cube, have made
a history in the area of architectural designs, and become important attractions
with modern settings in Beijing. 
Once
a mix of vacant land, storage and agriculture space, the Beijing Olympic
Forest Park is now a colossal green space. The Forest Park to the
north of the Bird’s Nest stadium was one of the early stars of the Beijing
Olympics, many month before the open ceremony of the games. As big as
the Summer Palace and the Yuanmingyuan combined, the Beijing Olympic Forest
Park represents an investment of over 1 billion US dollars. In the future
it’s set to become one of Beijing’s garden treasures. 
Park still looks like what it is, a rather young development. The most
mature areas are the water features, their banks lush with lotus plants,
reeds, lilies and willow trees. The centerpiece of the Olympic Forest
Park is the Yang mountain, crested by Tian Jing, the Heavenly View. From
the peak there is a stunning vista across the water and down the Olympic
Boulevard to the Birds Nest Stadium itself, more than two kilometers distant.
purification.
The
Beijing National Aquatics Center, also known as the National Aquatics
Center , and better known as the Water Cube, is an aquatics center that
was built alongside Beijing National Stadium in the Olympic Green for
the swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Despite its nickname,
the building is a rectangular box, not a true cube. 
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