bricworks3 the watercube post-olympics ai weiwei - ARCHILEPSY ...

Consumerism at two different scales. Hardly a landmark in China is more
than a stone's throw from a McDonald's or KFC. The Beijing National
Aquatics Center is no different. In fact, they share a parking lot.
These buildings appear close to each other, until you take into account
the enormous scale of each one. They're separated by the never-ending
Olympic Green, which is quite the misnomer in the middle of January.
savvy in practice designers
Upon entering the building, you immediately get the sense that the Water
Cube has been serving as a giant smog lung for the last several years, and
now has some kind of late-stage acute respiratory disease.
There are signs of restoration tucked into a few corners throughout the
interior, but each staging area is covered with more dust and mildew than
the rest of the building. It's as if the entire construction crew just vanished.