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Beijing Olympic Water Cube

The National Aquatics Centre, known as 'The Water Cube', will be one of the most dramatic and exciting venues to feature sporting events for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. To bring the design to life, the individual bubbles are incorporated into a plastic...

from YouTube on Mon, May 26 2008

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