Beijing’s Olympic Forest Park was made for the 2008 Olympic
Games. The landscape architecture design was led by Hu Jie,
director of the Landscape Planning and Design Institute at the
Urban Planning and Design Institute of Tsinghua University. It has
an area of 680 hectares and was built between 2003 and 2008. It is
at the north end of Beijing’s central axis, inviting comparison
with the projection of the Grand Axis in Paris beyond La Defense.
The competition-winning idea was to create an Axis of Nature. In
accordance with traditional feng shui practice, this involved a
hill at the north and a lake to the south. But it was decided that
the earthmoving cost would be too high. The hills, woods and water
concept is however along the lines of China’s imperial parks – and
is very appropriate to Beijing’s climate, by turns very hot, very
cold and very dry.
An expressway which crosses the park has been designed as a
‘green bridge’ ecological corridor over Beijing's Fifth Ring Road.
It links the southern and northern parts of the forest park and is
intended to be a landmark. The Olympic Forest Park has subway
stations, an open air theatre, a lake, and a sophisticated system
for bubbling air into the water for purification. In March 2008
Beijing's Olympic Forest Park was awarded 5th IFLA-APR Award for
Landscape Architecture.
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Cache
It is Lock&Lock box with enough space for small TBs and coins.
I hope it is hidden well enough to keep muggles away!