In seeing how much the Olympics related construction has taken over Beijing’s landscape, it’s hard to believe the actual event is only two weeks long. The buildings will of course function as valuable venues for years to come. With five months to go, construction is proceeding at a brisk pace (I saw welding sparks cascading down from the skeleton of a building late at night). Here are my moving taxi snapshots of: the unique CCTV building with its seemingly unsupported top section still being filled in, the “bird’s nest” which is the main Olympic stadium, an unfinished tower near the stadium with its large screen displaying the familiar Windows desktop, and the completed Olympic Tower which is home to the organizing committee.