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[Rafa]

Rob, you should download sketchup!
In a month or 2 you will be recreating this venue!

[kevzz]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jk...Ten_30_03_2009/

A report on last night's BBC One news about the construction of the roof. With some nice interior rendering video as well.

[kevzz]

ps. Segment at the end of the news.

[RobH]

I saw this last night as well.

Even for what passes as a positive news story on London 2012 this was a bit downbeat. I can't remember the exact wording but saying "this is the jewel in the crown of an otherwise dull park" seemed unduly negative, as if they felt guilty about running a good news story on 2012 and had to draw in the Evening Standard audience as well.

Good to see some pictures of the build on TV though.

[kevzz]

And again, they always most interested about costs. Even when they decided to show Zaha talking (for that brief moment), it's edited to be about cost again. Cant they give us more insight from her about the design itself?

[The Tower Bridge Fox]

Rob, on Mar 31 2009, 11:53 AM, said:

I saw this last night as well.

Even for what passes as a positive news story on London 2012 this was a bit downbeat. I can't remember the exact wording but saying "this is the jewel in the crown of an otherwise dull park" seemed unduly negative, as if they felt guilty about running a good news story on 2012 and had to draw in the Evening Standard audience as well.

Good to see some pictures of the build on TV though.

Thats what I thought as well , the BBC don't seem to be able to run a story on the Olyipics without a negativ twist.

[RobH]

Construction of the wave-shaped roof of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre has reached its halfway point.

The erection of the 160m-long, 2,800-tonne roof started just three months ago and is considered one of the most complex engineering and construction challenges of the Olympic Park ‘big build’.








This is what it will look like soon enough:

[RobH]

From DarJoLe on Skyscrapercity. He's got some more over there but this is the best one:



And to think the original plans were double the size of this!!

[Michelle]

This is what it will look like soon enough:


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Is that how it will look in 'games mode'??? or Legacy?!

Have they scrapped plans to add on the 'wings'? Sorry, I have not been keeping tabs on the recent developments.

[RobH]

Well, that's obviously just the roof. But no, they haven't scrapped the wings which is a shame but presumably unavoidable. So essentially that's its shape in legacy.

Edited by Rob, 19 July 2009 - 09:44 AM.