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Buildings
PTW Chosen to Build Swim Center for Beijing Olympics
(archrecord.construction.com
- 7/30/03)
By Sam
Lubell
Sydney-based firm PTW has been chosen
to build a futuristic, $100 million swimming center for the
2008 Olympics in Beijing. The firm announced the appointment
on its web site, www.ptw.com.au.
The design, known as the ‘Watercube’,
will be a massive blue rectangular shape that plays on the
geometry of water bubbles.
The building’s skin, made from
a transparent ‘teflon’ surface, abbreviated as ETFE,
has been designed to react to lighting and projection, and
to help provide natural heating, trapping most of the solar
energy that falls on the building.
Ove Arup Pty Ltd, also from Australia,
will be involved with engineering, along with the China State
Construction Engineering Corporation. Arup is known for its
work on The Sydney Opera House and the Guggenheim Bilbao.
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