A bird's eye view

Venue: National Stadium;

Location: Olympic Green;

Total land surface: 258,000 sq m;

Permanent Seats: 80,000;

Temporary Seats: 11,000;

Competitions: Athletics, Football;

Post-Games use: The Stadium is to stage sports events at national and international levels, as well as cultural and entertaining activities;

Groundbreaking date: Dec. 2003;

Designer: Herzog & DeMeuron (Swiss) and China Architecture Design Institute;

A night shot

The exterior

Seating bowl

The lobby

View from the plinth

The stadium in the sunset

The shopping center in the stadium

Entrance to the shopping center

The east corner

The green area

A bird's eye view of the Olympic Green