1. Beijing Olympic Main Venue (Bird's Nest):
Swiss architects provided natural ventilation for the 91,000-seat structure - possibly the largest environmentally friendly stadium to date! The stadium looks like a bird's nest, made up of different smaller branches.
2,Beijing Capital International Airport
Designed by Foster&Partners and opened in 2007, the new airport's entire building will be more than one million square feet, and to ensure the airport's sustainability, an environmental control system reduces carbon emissions, and skylights are in the southeastern corner to reduce the the sun's heat.
3. Shanghai World Financial Center:
Standing in the Lujiazui financial district of Pudong, Shanghai, this 101-story tower will be the tallest in the world. The biggest challenge for the building was to resist the wind in the air, and the architects created an innovative solution to mitigate the wind by adding right-angled cutouts at the apex of the building.
4. National Grand Theater:
Located near Tiananmen Square and made of glass and titanium, the 490,485-square-foot building is scheduled to open in 2008. Inside the theater is a 2,416-seat opera house, a 2,017-seat concert hall, and a 104-seat smaller theater.
5. CCTV:
The design of the headquarters of the new CCTV building challenged traditional high-rise architecture and broke Beijing's architectural code. It consists of two leaning towers, each tilted 90 degrees to form a chain.
6. Chongming Dongtan Eco-City, Shanghai:
Chongming Dongtan Eco-City, which is about the size of Manhattan, is set to become the world's first fully sustainable metropolis, to be fully completed by 2040. It sits on Chongming Island, China's third largest island.
7. Shanghai East China Sea Bridge:
The BridgeThis is the most critical step for this largest deep-sea port in China, and it's China's first cross-sea bridge - the 20-mile-long, six-lane East China Sea Bridge. The bridge spans China's East China Sea, with a fiber-optic cable structure connecting Shanghai to Yangshan Island.
8. Hangzhou Bay Bridge
The Hangzhou Bay Bridge, a sea-crossing bridge spanning China's Hangzhou Bay, is a magnificent spectacle that is the result of the concerted efforts and cooperation of thousands of designers, engineers and construction workers. The bridge starts from Zhengjiadai, Haiyan, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, in the north and ends at Shuiluwan, Cixi, Ningbo City, in the south.
With a total length of 36 kilometers, 11 kilometers longer than the King Fahd Bridge connecting Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the bridge has held the world record for the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world by the Chinese World Records Association, and it is now the world's third-longest sea-crossing bridge following the U.S. Lake Pontchartrain Bridge and the Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge.
9, the Three Gorges Project
The Three Gorges hydroelectric power plant is the world's largest hydroelectric power plant, but also China's largest engineering project ever built. It is also the largest engineering project ever constructed in China. The many problems caused by it, such as the relocation of immigrants and the environment, have made it a source of great controversy from the moment it began to be built. The Three Gorges hydropower station has more than 10 functions, shipping, power generation, planting and so on.
The construction of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station was approved by China's National People's Congress in 1992, officially started in 1994, and began storing water for power generation on the afternoon of June 1, 2003, and was fully completed in 2009, according to the National People's Congress.
10, the South-to-North Water Transfer Project
"South-to-North Water Transfer" that is, "South-to-North Water Transfer Project", is the Chinese People's *** and the country's strategic projects, divided into east, middle and west three lines. Line, the starting point of the East Route Project is located in Jiangsu Yangzhou Jiangdu Water Conservancy Hub; the starting point of the Middle Route Project is located in the Danjiangkou Reservoir in the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River, the water supply area for Henan, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, four provinces (cities).