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    Belgrade Arena is considered an efficient and effective design that was completed for €70 million and seats 25,000 people. In comparison, Beijing's Bird's Nest, which hosted the 2008 Olympics, cost €450 million to build but can seat 90,000. Though iconic, some architects criticize the Bird's Nest as irrational and wasteful given its massive size and cost. It is rarely fully utilized for events since the Olympics, whereas the Belgrade Arena hosts more frequent events and sees fuller attendance due to its smaller scale. There is debate around whether the Bird's Nest was worth its exorbitant budget or if a more functional design could have achieved its goals at lower expense.

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    Belgrade Arena is considered an efficient and effective design that was completed for €70 million and seats 25,000 people. In comparison, Beijing's Bird's Nest, which hosted the 2008 Olympics, cost €450 million to build but can seat 90,000. Though iconic, some architects criticize the Bird's Nest as irrational and wasteful given its massive size and cost. It is rarely fully utilized for events since the Olympics, whereas the Belgrade Arena hosts more frequent events and sees fuller attendance due to its smaller scale. There is debate around whether the Bird's Nest was worth its exorbitant budget or if a more functional design could have achieved its goals at lower expense.

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    Belgrade Arena is considered an efficient and effective design that was completed for €70 million and seats 25,000 people. In comparison, Beijing's Bird's Nest, which hosted the 2008 Olympics, cost €450 million to build but can seat 90,000. Though iconic, some architects criticize the Bird's Nest as irrational and wasteful given its massive size and cost. It is rarely fully utilized for events since the Olympics, whereas the Belgrade Arena hosts more frequent events and sees fuller attendance due to its smaller scale. There is debate around whether the Bird's Nest was worth its exorbitant budget or if a more functional design could have achieved its goals at lower expense.

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    MINJA MARTINOVIC 236/2012

    LESSON 4 CONSTRUCTION

    Considering the constraints of budget the Belgrade Arena is an admirably


    efficient and effective design, especially in comparison with Beijings Birds
    Nest. But although the Birds Nest is a memorable iconic design, for many
    architects it is also irrational and wasteful in its structural solution and its
    huge members.
    Belgrade Arena with a total space that covers 48,000 square metres, and a
    capacity of 25,000, it is the largest indoor stadium in Europe. Its cost was
    estimated at 70 million. On the other hand, Beijing National Stadium also
    known as the Birds Nest cost almost 6 times that 450 million and has the
    capacity to welcome 90,000 people. The stadium was designed for use
    throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics and will be used
    again in the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The stadium is currently
    used mostly for football matches. The stadium was winner of a few
    architectural competitions even before the Beijing Olympics. Despite the
    lavish cost and constant budget overruns, it went ahead, justified as the
    iconic building that would provide, in that desperately overworked clich, the
    wow factor, as the signature building giving memorable identity to the
    games. Secondly this building will never be used as many times as Belgrade
    Arena because it is enormous, and for the events of any kind will be half
    empty. It is justified that the Birds Nest showed its purpose at the time of
    the Olympics but the real question is was it worth that kind of money and
    effort, could have it been cheaper and more functional for the post games
    period? Furthermore,

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