They didn’t have much time. In April 2011, Nanjing invited bids from global design companies to build a landmark building for the Youth Olympic Games that were then just 3 and a bit years away. Whoever got the job need better work fast.
他们没有太多时间。 2011年4月，南京邀请全球设计公司竞标，为青年奥运会建造一座地标性建筑，当时距离青年奥运会只有3年多一点。 不管是谁得到了这份工作，都需要更快地工作。
Over 490,000 square metres, Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre (NIYCC) comprises a 314.5-metre, 68-storey tower; a 249.5-metre, 58-storey tower; and a six-story podium.
南京国际青年文化中心（NIYCC）占地超过49万平方米，包括一座314.5米、68层的塔楼；一座249.5米、58层的塔楼；以及一座六层的讲台。
Many readers will know the building to be a design by Zaha Hadid Architects, but less well known is the fact that inspiration for the towers’ facades was found in the swirls of Nanjing’s famed brocade.
许多读者会知道这座建筑是由扎哈·哈迪德建筑师设计的，但不太为人所知的是，塔楼立面的灵感来自于南京著名的锦缎的漩涡。
Similarly less famed is the genius behind the towers adopting a trapezoidal structure to maximise the length of floors facing the Yangtze River. Meanwhile, the towers’ tapered cross-sectional structure allows the ratio of usable floor space to total built area to exceed 70 percent.
同样，不太出名的是塔楼背后的天才，它采用了梯形结构，以最大限度地延长面向长江的楼层长度。 与此同时，塔楼的锥形横截面结构使可用建筑面积与总建筑面积的比率超过70%。
With the first pile laid on 23 April, 2012, NIYCC held its topping-out ceremony just 20 months later.
2012年4月23日，NIYCC在20个月后举行了第一桩奠基仪式。
Then there is the main event down under, where things as usual get more interesting; the NIYCC podium, or Spaceship Central, as The Nanjinger prefers to refer to it.
然后是下面的主要活动，事情和往常一样变得更加有趣；NIYCC讲台，或航天器中央，正如南京人喜欢提到它。
Therein, the Nanjing Poly Grand Theatre has 1917 seats, possibly in recognition of the year China entered the First World War against Germany and the Austria-Hungary Empire as a means to rightfully reclaim Shandong Province, then occupied by the Allies.
其中，南京保利大剧院有1917个席位，可能是为了表彰中国第一次加入第一次世界大战对抗德国和奥匈帝国的年份，以此来合法夺回当时被盟军占领的山东省。
But that making NIYCC one of Nanjing’s most Instagrammed spots is its exterior curtain wall. That comprises in excess of 12,000 pieces of GRC (glass fiber reinforced concrete) panels, some up to 35 square metres in area and with a maximum weight of 2.1 tonnes.
但使NIYCC成为南京最受Instagram的景点之一，是其外部幕墙。 其中包括12,000多块GRC（玻璃纤维钢筋混凝土）面板，其中有些面积高达35平方米，最大重量为2.1吨。
Among the many awards bestowed upon it, in October 2017, NIYCC won the 2016-2017 Luban Award that is the highest honorary award for engineering quality in China’s construction industry.
在授予它的众多奖项中，2017年10月，NIYCC获得了2016-2017年鲁班奖，这是中国建筑业工程质量的最高荣誉奖。
At the end of the day, the winning team had worked fast, at least fast enough for Spaceship Central to be complete for the opening of the Youth Olympics. But it would take until 24 October, 2018, for NIYCC to obtain its completion record certificate.
归根结底，获胜的球队工作得很快，至少足够快，太空飞船中央完成了青年奥运会的开幕式。 但直到2018年10月24日，NIYCC才能获得完成记录证书。
