Beijing National Stadium

This here is the stadium China built for the upcoming Olympics that they're going to be hosting in Beijing. TELL me the architect didn't get his inspiration from a packet of raman noodles.


I can totally picture it: it's the night before the design is due, and he has yet to come up with an idea for the Olympic committee. He heats up water in his hotpot, and as he's about to drop in the dried brick of raman, he looks at it and thinks, eureka! or, because he's Chinese, 尤里卡!