However, there is something interesting for me about these Games, and of course it's The Water Cube.I was stunned when I first saw the photos of the building - it was under construction and it was after my discovery of Voronoi diagrams. Mixed feelings flew through my veins. On the one hand, I was happy that something so similar to Voronoi was actually being built, and on such a large scale. On the other hand, I knew that most of the people, when they'd see my work, would say "Oh, you're doing a kind of bubble-building, just something like the Beijing Water Cube. Not very innovative."
Let's put the question of originality aside. The Water Cube is a fascinating building, it really looks like a bunch of bubbles, but it's geometry isn't based on Voronoi diagrams. I learned that the geometry behind is Weaire-Phelan structure.
Well, Voronoi, Steiner trees, Weaire-Phelan... it all looks the same - bubbles.
It's really brave to actually build that kind of architecture. I wonder how it will age. It's certainly a peak of today's engineering, maybe even one of the wonders of the new world; pitty it surely won't last as long as the old ones. They don't do these kind of wonders anymore :-)
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