Netherlands: high-tech fastening for high-speed track ... - Hilti
Netherlands: high-tech fastening for high-speed track ... - Hilti
Netherlands: high-tech fastening for high-speed track ... - Hilti
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Magazine Fall/Winter 2005<br />
Agigantic dome of titanium<br />
and glass has grown in Beijing.<br />
In the city center, near<br />
Tiananmen Square, the new Chinese<br />
National Theater is taking<br />
shape. It will encompass an opera<br />
house seating 2500, a concert hall,<br />
two theaters, an art center and<br />
shops. <strong>Hilti</strong> anchors were used to<br />
assemble the stages and the elevator<br />
shafts, to fasten steel beams and<br />
to install heavy pipes. The building<br />
owes its round design to French architect<br />
Paul Andreu. It contrasts<br />
with the pagoda-shaped rooftops<br />
and golden lions of the nearby Forbidden<br />
City, home to Chinese emperors.<br />
The design contrasts even<br />
more with the hutongs, the city’s<br />
older quarters with narrow alleys<br />
and low-lying houses. But the old<br />
meets the new in a city that is redefining<br />
itself in advance of the<br />
games of the XXIX Olypiad that<br />
will take place in Beijing in the<br />
summer of 2008.
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