The main Olympic stadium for the 2008 Games, designed by the Swiss bureau Herzog & de Meuron, will end up being smaller in size than originally anticipated. A huge "bird's nest" of 50,000 tons of cast iron and steel was supposed to cost $ 500,000 and accommodate 80,000 spectators. Now the Chinese Olympic Committee has announced that the draft will be redesigned, in line with the change in government policy. Several decrees have already been adopted to dampen the construction boom in China.
At the same time, it became known that the construction of the headquarters of China Central TV will begin in the near future. Architect Rem Koolhaas and CCTV executives deny reports of controversy in press around the world. The cost of the skyscraper remained virtually unchanged at $ 730 million.
