Wednesday 12 December 2012

Olympic Legacy

After looking at the temporary stadium in Vancouver the other day I was immediately reminded of the some initial plans that where made for the Olympic stadium after the Olympics was completed. It was proposed that the stadium would potentially have 55000 of its seats dismantled and be used in Chicago who at the time were one of the favourites to host the next games.

An illustration of the 'flat pack' design of the London 2012 Olympic stadium

This was an understandable approach considering what has happened to the the Bird's Nest stadium in China. The stadium since the Olympics has rarely been used and has caused much controversy as to what to do with it.



This has got me thinking about how you can develop sporting facilities where this problem will not occur again.

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