Three Beijing buildings on Time's best list
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-12-18 14:49
No. 5 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Sanaa. The New Museum is on the Bowery, a grimy but gentrifying stretch of lower Manhattan. So Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa gave it a home that's part funky, part shimmery, an asymmetrical stack of boxes covered by a honeycomb of aluminum. [Xinhua] |
No. 6 Olympic Stadium, Beijing. Athletes at the Summer Games will compete in a nestlike venue by Herzog & de Meuron. [Xinhua] |
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