BIRD'S NEST chronicles the five-year effort to build a 100 thousand seat statium in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics (nicknamed "the bird's nest"), as well as Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's design for a new city district in Jinhua. Both projects involved complex and often difficult negotiations and communications between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems. Herzog and de Meuron, the Basle-based architects, find themselves working with China's largest state construction company, Chinese artist and architect Ai Wei Wei, lawyers, and countless government bureaucrats. -- from Product Description