BEIJING — The centerpiece of the Beijing Olympics rises 230 feet tall, its lattice of steel beams sometimes vanishing in a thick blanket of smog. Quietly and without fanfare, officials have opened the ...

Reporting from Beijing — Beijing is hosting its own version of the Winter Olympics -- though the idea may be on thin ice. Inside the architectural wonder of the capital’s National Stadium ...

But Beijing is also storied for its signature venues like the Bird's Nest stadium, and the Water Cube swimming venue. No Olympics before or since have impacted a city the way the Olympics did Beijing.

While originally commissioned as a monument to Beijing’s might, Herzog and deMeuron’s stunning Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium, (looking as spectacular as we imagined it), perhaps now better ...

The “Bird’s Nest” stadium will host the event, which moves from London’s Wembley Stadium after a two-year run at the English venue and three years at the Stade de France in Paris.

BEIJING — Just five months after the Beijing Olympics, the Bird’s Nest is a cavernous museum searching for a new purpose. The iconic National Stadium drew acclaim for its daring design, an ...

BEIJING — The area around Beijing’s massive Bird’s Nest stadium will be turned into a shopping and entertainment complex in three to five years, a state news agency said Friday. Officially ...

Visitors walk past the National Aquatics Center, known as the Water Cube, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Olympic Games, in Beijing. The Olympics are remembered for ...

That was true in Beijing in 2008, when […] EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of ...

Here are some of the highlights of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. EDITORS - With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at ...