With the Olympics just less than one year to go, China is on a building-spree in Beijing and Shanghai. They have invited a number of leading overseas architects to do the designs – with some controversial, but impressive results.
One is the Olympic Stadium:
10 Amazing new buildings in China » Beijing Olympic Games 2008
It’s also the only Olympic facility not quite completed. Amazing the efficienty of a totalitarian state in organizing an Olympic Games.
Rick McCharles 
August 2008 is a lot less than “just one year to go”
Slip of the pen. Of course I should have quoted “just less than one year to go”
Good point.
(Writing from home of Warren and Sandy in Saskatoon.)