When Zhu Pei and his partner, Wu Tong, began designing Digital Beijing for a site on the western edge of the Olympic Green, the National Swimming Center and National Stadium were already under construction. With such iconic structures—the so-called Water Cube and Bird’s Nest—within sight of their project, they decided to create a building that would act as a foil for the main Olympics venues, rather than try to echo them. (Zhu won the commission when he was a partner at Urbanus, before setting up his own firm in 2005.)
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