Posted June 20, 200618 yr Not exactly photos but renderings of potential stadium plans for the olympics http://www.bjghw.gov.cn/forNationalStadium/indexeng.asp#12
July 13, 200618 yr That first pic looks like it's reinforced by rubberbands. This is just Beijing looking beyond the Olympics. Nobody's going to come to see the old Olympic Stadium. But promise them the worlds largest ball of rubbber bands... Cha ching! (comedic gong sound effect)
July 13, 200618 yr If they want to proceed with the plan for a stadium having a semi-enclosed stadium, they should contact Texas Stadium officials in Dallas first. The artificial turf there takes an awfully long time to dry out and is very slippery, often causing athletes' injuries. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 14, 200618 yr Personally I think the first one is brilliant. It's rare these days to see an architect with any kind of vision anymore. Because thats their duty, to see things as most of us don't. To reach the edge and go over it-and then do it again. Most architects today are just contractors. All they do is re-furb and re-hab, and everybody loves it. Thank god for architects such as phillip johnson,frank ghery, i.m.pei, because they understand their duty-and that is to create. But most architects today are negligent in their work. You look around these days and its still 1962, its like Ground Hog Day and were all Bill Murry. Do something to inspire me, make a difference. I want to look out my window sometimes and believe its 2006. Oh well...i think I'll go over to the Rock Hall tomorrow, before I lose all hope.
July 14, 200618 yr Form this angle I'm getting kind of a bed pan thing going on. A bed pan made from rubber bands, of course. But really, this is awesome. Architects allowed to pursue a vision create more than a building; they create a true landmark. Landmarks are what we lack nowadays. For me, this is the irony of modern architecture. We have plenty of buildings about which the only impressive aspect is their size or function. They're paradigm-busting examples of building technique, but worth nary a damn to the human sharing its landscape. The lay person, with his lay person's knowledge of architecture, notices one important aspect of these new mega-buildings: that there's nothing there worth noticing. The Beijing plan, however, isn't forgettable in the least. Nice work. Let's build it.
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