Chinese studio TeamMinus has designed a ski jump to host big air events at the 2022 Winter Olympics on the site of a former steelworks in Beijing.
Created as the first permanent venue for big air events in the world, the 60-metre-high ski jump will host the ski and snowboard big air competitions at the Olympics, which begin this week.
It will be the first time ski big air has been included in the games, following the introduction of snowboard big air at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang.
The Big Air Shougang venue is located in a former steelworks
Built in the western Shijingshan district of Beijing, the Olympic venue sits within the former Shougang Industrial Park, which was the largest steel mill in the region before it closed in 2011. The largely steel structure designed by TeamMinus occupies a dramatic location alongside four large cooling towers on a strip of land between a former cooling lake and the Yongding River.

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As the 60-metre-long structure was designed to be used for big air events rather than traditional ski jumping, it has a distinctive form.
Supported on a column that contains an elevator for the athletes to reach the top of the jump, the structure has three distinct sections.
It was built as the first permanent venue for big air events in the world. Photo courtesy of Beijing 2022
It has a long slope, followed by a flatter c...