As we sit in front of our televisions until 1:30 a.m. coming together as a nation to cheer on one athlete, one team (whether we realize it or not) we're coming together as a world cheering simply for one goal, the opportunity for every country to compete together as if we were brother vs. sister. The architecture for the 2008 Summer Olympics has been designed and built for the purpose of bringing together this family of competitors and their supporters. In The Triad we catch glimpses of the Birds Nest and the Water Cube during the daily broadcast from Beijing and by the end of these two weeks those images will not feel foreign or strange, but will inspire hope and pride.
You may have never realized how effective design really can be in our lives, we should take the inspiration from this and aim to create those same influential buildings in our community.
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