In the lead up to the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is facing many such controversies. Day and night, 4,000 Chinese laborers are laying the foundations of a dazzling design - an enormous titanium bubble surrounded by water - which will be home to a state-of-the art opera theater and concert hall. Costing more than 300 million dollars, work on the project was stalled for months - dogged by controversy over its avant-garde design.

Originally released by Switch International, 2008. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 06, 2015.

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