Officials say a consortium of Swiss company Herzog & De Meuron and China Architecture Design Institute, Beijing Architecture Design Institute, and a consortium of Japanese AXS Company and Tsinghua University Architecture Design Institute, won the design competition for their "unique" and "advanced" design concepts.
An evaluation panel consisting of 13 architects and experts from five countries selected the three schemes from 13 short-listed designs.
Construction work is set to start in December.
The 80,000-seat National Stadium, to be located in the south of the Olympic Green, will host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as track-and-field events during the 2008 Olympics.
(China Radio International 03-03-2003 01:53)
