<![CDATA[io9: beijing olympic stadium]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: beijing olympic stadium]]> http://io9.com/tag/beijingolympicstadium http://io9.com/tag/beijingolympicstadium <![CDATA[Beijing Olympic Campus Looks Like CGI]]> Construction is nearly complete on the Beijing Olympic Stadium, shaped like a massive steel bird's nest, and the swimming-pool-filled Water Cube, which looks like a piece of glowing alien machinery. This is an actual photo of the buildings at night. We've also got some less-surreal glimpses of them too.

Here you can see people posing in front of the Nest last week. 78914351.jpg And here's a closeup of the crisscrossed steel girders that form the exoskeleton of the Nest. nestclose.jpg The Water Cube is actually made of high-tech materials that emulate bubbles to keep the heat inside the building.

Top image courtesy of AP; middle image by Feng Li/Getty; bottom image by Elizabeth Dalziel/AP.

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