In August 9th, 2008 in the capital of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Coca-Cola opened the exhibition of unusual sculptures made as big Coca-Cola bottles (pic.).

Occupying an area of 4 000 square meters, the brand showed 34 works selected from about 180 000 designs have been submitted since December 12, 2007, when Coca-Cola invited artists to take part in this event. These entries were then used to decorate a set of two-meter-tall soda bottles.

The designs featured various elements of Chinese culture including: "flying goddesses" from the Buddhist mural paintings of the Dunhuang Grottoes, the famous Tulou residential architecture of Fujian Province; and imagery of the National Stadium in Beijing, affectionately dubbed the "Bird's Nest."

The exhibition worked till the end of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.



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