Yes but that was always going to be the case. The actual design seems to have everyone on 'the radio' up in arms. Then again the average person who can be bothered contacting a radio station tends to disagree with me anyway and, it seems, everything about the olympics seems destined to be greated with unwarranted scorn for no better reason than it's the British way.
design (at least in terms of the pic you posted) doesn't matter much as the main view we have of it is from the inside (on the telly) rather than from the outside.
after the vat gaffe lie, pretty much all scorn is warranted any time the government comes within a sniff of claiming any credit for it.
btw i predict tomorrow will be alex salmond looking smug day.
I don't dislike the logo either but I can see how it doesn't appeal to everyone. But this? It's a modern athletics arena. What were people expecting? Colisseum++ (tm) in stone and marble? You'd think that after the 'what shall we do with the Dome?' fiasco people would be happy that its future use/sustainability has been thought about and 'designed in'.
Some people seem to be upset that it's not 'the most amazing stadium in the world' but, as Lord Coe was pointing out earlier, it's actually designed to be a stadium which will scale down so it can continue being used after the Olympics have been and gone rather than the huge expensive white elephants that just about every other Olympic city has that just sit there unused because they're too big and impractical to serve a useful purpose. This is the sort of sustainable thinking that we should be a) commending and b) proud of. And I'm getting pretty sick of the British culture of negativity and cynicism which is obligatory the moment ANYTHING is announced or unveiled.
Well the Beijing stadium certainly has a uniqueness about its design but I can't decide whether it's genius or hideous. I'm veering more towards the latter.
I like the idea of scaling it down. If they built a huge 80,000 seater stadium it would simply sit there gathering dust because I doubt any of the major football teams would actually manage to agree a deal to move there - plus it's not exactly the right shape for a football stadium. Scaling it down to 25,000 means that it actually has a chance to become a viable proposition once the games have come and gone and so means there's not yet another huge ex-olympic stadium doing nothing like in Sydney and Athens.
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Yes but that was always going to be the case. The actual design seems to have everyone on 'the radio' up in arms. Then again the average person who can be bothered contacting a radio station tends to disagree with me anyway and, it seems, everything about the olympics seems destined to be greated with unwarranted scorn for no better reason than it's the British way.
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after the vat gaffe lie, pretty much all scorn is warranted any time the government comes within a sniff of claiming any credit for it.
btw i predict tomorrow will be alex salmond looking smug day.
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btw i predict tomorrow will be alex salmond looking smug day
I thought that was every day. Is there any particular reason tomorrow?
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I don't dislike the logo either but I can see how it doesn't appeal to everyone. But this? It's a modern athletics arena. What were people expecting? Colisseum++ (tm) in stone and marble? You'd think that after the 'what shall we do with the Dome?' fiasco people would be happy that its future use/sustainability has been thought about and 'designed in'.
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Good :)
Some people seem to be upset that it's not 'the most amazing stadium in the world' but, as Lord Coe was pointing out earlier, it's actually designed to be a stadium which will scale down so it can continue being used after the Olympics have been and gone rather than the huge expensive white elephants that just about every other Olympic city has that just sit there unused because they're too big and impractical to serve a useful purpose. This is the sort of sustainable thinking that we should be a) commending and b) proud of. And I'm getting pretty sick of the British culture of negativity and cynicism which is obligatory the moment ANYTHING is announced or unveiled.
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Well the Beijing stadium certainly has a uniqueness about its design but I can't decide whether it's genius or hideous. I'm veering more towards the latter.
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When I first saw it I thought it looked a bit chincy but it's growing on me.
What I'm most surprised about is the fact they they are going to scale it right down afterwards.
But yeah, it's OK, I agree.
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I like the idea of scaling it down. If they built a huge 80,000 seater stadium it would simply sit there gathering dust because I doubt any of the major football teams would actually manage to agree a deal to move there - plus it's not exactly the right shape for a football stadium. Scaling it down to 25,000 means that it actually has a chance to become a viable proposition once the games have come and gone and so means there's not yet another huge ex-olympic stadium doing nothing like in Sydney and Athens.
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