{"id":295,"date":"2007-12-03T17:19:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T07:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/conf\/about\/national-aquatics-centre-bejing\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T17:19:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T07:19:30","slug":"national-aquatics-centre-bejing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/national-aquatics-centre-bejing\/","title":{"rendered":"National Aquatics Centre, Bejing"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/na01s.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"na01s\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2872\" \/>\n\n<p>The Aquatics Centre in Bejing, commonly known as the Water Cube, will be the home for nearly all of the 2008 Summer Olympics aquatic events. This unusual venue spans some 80,000 square meters, and will have approximately 440,000 LEDs embedded throughout the structure.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/na03s.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"na03s\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2874\" \/>\n\n<p>The Water Cube integrates the geometry of water bubbles into a rectangular, plastic structure. LED lighting fixtures will illuminate the bubble designs from inside the structure\u2019s translucent walls, allowing the entire building to glow with extraordinary color-changing LED light.<\/p>\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/na02s.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"na02s\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2873\" \/>\n\n<p>via: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.beijing2008.com\/47\/60\/article212056047.shtml\"> beijing2008.com<\/a><br \/>\nphotos: by Paul Hickman via Flickr<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aquatics Centre in Bejing, commonly known as the Water Cube, will be the home for nearly all of the 2008 Summer Olympics aquatic events. This unusual venue spans some 80,000 square meters, and will have approximately 440,000 LEDs embedded throughout the structure.","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}