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“The architecture disappears into nature.”

This new Chinese sports stadium looks like an alien landscape

[Image: Aogvision/courtesy MAD Architects]

BY Nate Berg

With 30,000 seats, a red ring of running lanes for track events, and a central soccer field, the new stadium in the eastern Chinese city of Quzhou, is very clearly a place for sports. But for MAD Architects, the Beijing-based firm that designed the stadium to blend into the surrounding landscape like a crater on the moon, the project is actually a massive piece of land art.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nate Berg is a staff writer at Fast Company, where he writes about design, architecture, urban development, and industrial design. He has written for publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Wired, the Guardian, Dwell, Wallpaper, and Curbed More


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