The Beijing National Aquatics Centre is popularly known as the Water Cube, for obvious reasons.
Purpose-built for the Olympics in 2004, the Water Cube is built around an immense space frame, making it the biggest building in the world clad with EFTE, a plastic that is lighter and transmits more light than glass.
The bubble pattern seen on the outside of the Water Cube is formed of "pillows" made of the EFTE plastic.
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