Favorite Building

Of all the buildings available to research, my favorite was the Beijing National Stadium by Herzog & de Meuron. It was impressive that the inspiration for the stadium came from a piece of Chinese culture and heritage, their ceramic pottery. So often the designs of new buildings seem arbitrary and of a more personal artistic view than they seem to represent the area or culture they are to be a part of. The architects managed to create a new piece of original architecture, while keeping it relevant to the heritage of the country it would reside in.