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Until 2016, the Earth climate will change and will snow in Rio, so we will host the 2026 winter olympics, ten years after the summer games. Can you imagine the alpine skiing at Corcovado Mountain?

This video have more details about the new roof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axN7MOyrQzo&feature=player_embedded

The ceremonies of the PANAM 2007 was innovative. The part next to cauldron did not have tickets sold and were reserved for athletes, who after the parade of nations, could sit and watch the show. This picture must have been taken at the start of ceremony. According to some athletes, they liked because were less tired and had a better view. The closing ceremony has indeed a smaller public, since many athletes go home after the end of their competitions. * Obviously this will not be done in the olympics, given the considerably larger number of athletes coming to the games.

During the PANAM ceremony, the tents stayed in the athletics stadium (bottom right) and volunteers were concentrated in Maracanazinho (bottom left). I think the space is sufficient.

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IOC president visits works for the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 Jacques Rogge and his team had triple journey this Thursday The delegation of the International Olympic Committee follows its agenda in Rio de Janeiro. On Thursday, the IOC president Jacques Rogge took the morning to visit the excavation works of the subway line 4, which will connect Jardim Oceânico, Barra, to the district of Gavea in in South Zone. The group also visited the Grota Funda and also met UPP of Pavãozinho.

Definition process of the Rio 2016 Olympic Park project started With the presence of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Jacques Rogge, City of Rio de Janeiro Mayor, Eduardo Paes, and the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB, in Portuguese) in Rio President, Sérgio Magalhães, in the morning of this Wednesday 29th, they signed the technical cooperation term for the realization of an international general architecture and urbanization tender for the Olympic Park of Barra, which will concentrate 19 Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games facilities. The ceremony was held at the Arena da Barra, located where the Olympic Park will be built, in the Western Zone of the city, and also counted with the presence of State Governor, Sérgio Cabral; High Performance Sports Secretary of the Ministry of Sports, Ricardo Leyser; IOC Coordination Commission President for the Rio 2016 Games President, Nawal El Moutawakel; IOC Olympic Games Director, Gilbert Felli; Rio 2016 Organizing Committee President, Carlos Arthur Nuzman; and the Rio 2016 Games CEO, Leonardo Gryner. “The Olympic Games are an opportunity for a city, and even a continent, to think of its future”, Rogge said. “It is possible to do in seven years what would probably be done in twenty-five”, reinforced him, also stating that the Games have the capacity to speed up the development of a city in a sustainable way. Rogge said that the IOC defends the construction of self-sufficient or temporary facilities, which could be disassembled after the Games. He praised the partnership initiatives between governments and other entities and underlined that the legacy left by the Games will be “partly human and partly brickwork”. During the ceremony, Gryner presented the park project, which will be built in an area of 1.6 million square meters. The Olympic Park, which will occupy the area of the Jacarepaguá Racing Circuit (and will include the Arena da Barra and the Aquatic Park Maria Lenk, built for the Rio 2007 Pan-American Games), will concentrate most of the sports competitions of the Rio 2016 Games, such as judo, volleyball, basketball, cycling, hockey, tennis, taekwondo, swimming, wrestling and handball. The IBC (games transmission center) and the MPC (press center) will also be located at the Olympic Park. According to the CEO, at the park 112 gold medals will be handed to the athletes, which will represent 40% of the total of the Rio 2016 Games. The planning presented expects the construction of 10 permanent facilities and other 9 temporary ones. That part of the land should be utilized for private enterprises that will be defined by the City Hall Director Planning. Sérgio Magalhães stated that the selection of projects for the Olympic Park will be developed in two stages, beginning January 15th, 2011. The first one will evaluate the experience of all teams of architects and will select eight groups of professionals from all over the world. In the second stage the eight final projects will be evaluated. The winning group will be known in June of the same year and will coordinate the executive project and the implementation of the facilities of the park. For the President of IAB of Rio de Janeiro, the quality of the groups involved will be paramount for the Games and the future of the city. “I am sure that it is a very important contribution for the success of the Olympic Games and the quality of the legacy the city of Rio de Janeiro and the state will have with the 2016 Olympic Games”, he said. http://www.rio2016.org.br/en/Noticias/Noticia.aspx?idConteudo=1246

A record-time beginning of the construction works for the Rio 2016 Olympic Village pleases IOC President “I am glad because I see the preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is going extremely well”, said the International Olympic Committee President (IOC), Jacques Rogge, in the laying of the cornerstone of the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Village, in the morning of this Wednesday 29th, highlighting that the Village is the “heart of the Olympic experience, a sacred place”. The ceremony also had the presence of a number of authorities as State Governor Sérgio Cabral, and his Vice-Governor Fernando Pezão; Mayor Eduardo Paes; Senator Regis Fichtner; IOC senior member João Havelange; IOC Coordination Commission President Nawal El Moutawakel; businessman Carlos Fernando Carvalho, from Carvalho Hosken construction company; and Rio 2016 Committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman. Olympic athletes were also present, including beach volleyball Olympic medalist Sandra Pires. Located in the Western Zone of the city, next to Riocentro, which is one of the Games competing venues, the Village will provide the athletes the chance of experiencing the carioca lifestyle. During the event, 46% of the athletes will be staying 10 minutes from the competition and training venues and 73% only 25 minutes away. Seventy-five hectares, being 58 used for accommodation area, with 48 twelve-storey buildings and 2,800 more apartments to house the 17,700 athletes. The apartments, of three and four bedrooms, will house eight athletes each. The parking lots will have the capacity for 1,000 cars. At the entrance of the complex, the Olympic Plaza will exhibit the traditional 205 participating country flags and will provide commercial centers and other services. The Carioca Street, about 700 meters long, will reproduce the sidewalks and kiosks of the Rio beaches, world famous, and will also have cafés, restaurants, juice and ice-cream stores. The project also includes a training center, a park and, nearby, the Olympic Village Beach. The Village will also have a pool, movie theater, spa, gym and business center, among other options of leisure such as the Barra da Tijuca condos, a neighborhood famous for offering housing complexes of excellent infrastructure. Reproducing a common practice in former Olympic and Paralympic Games Villages, the apartments will be sold after the event. Follows what some of the authorities present stated: “We will kick start the beginning of the constructions of the Rio 2016 Village in record time. We will have an extraordinary Village; it will be the best and most beautiful in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games”. Carlos Arthur Nuzman “This is a public-private consistent partnership, a harmonious project between nature and sports. And we will have a Village that the Paralympic athletes will enjoy with dignity. This project will serve as an accessibility model for Brazilian architecture”. Sergio Cabral “Rio de Janeiro is going through a very special moment and it is not a coincidence that it goes so well. There is a huge effort to make the transformations in the city. We will meet the deadlines and deliver the works before scheduled time to evaluate with comfort the problems that might come up”. Eduardo Paes “I would like to thank the support the sports world receives from the Brazilian public authorities, the three levels of governments – Federal, State and City ones. That is what we need”. Jacques Rogge “Surely the thirty-first Olympic Village of history will be a modern project, a landmark in the accomplishment of an urban dream. In a scenery of 18 kilometers of a tropical beach and lagoons of Barra da Tijuca, we will have a great meeting place for athletes from all over the world”. Carlos Fernando Carvalho Source: http://www.rio2016.org.br/en/Noticias/Noticia.aspx?idConteudo=1245

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Foundation stone of the Olympic Village is launched, and the project receives approval from the IOC President Jacques Rogge says he is proud with the preparation of Rio 2016 It was inaugurated on Wednesday the foundation stone of the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. The ceremony was attended by the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, who, after observing the model of the project, praised the city's preparation for the Olympics. - I'm happy to be here and give support from the IOC. I am also very proud because the preparation for 2016 is going very well. Today is an important day because the Village is the heart of the Olympic experience. It is a sacred place, where everyone gets together and live in brotherhood. It's a great honor to participate in this event and I'm sure it will be a fantastic village. The house athletes during the event will be erected in the grounds of the former City of Rock in Barra da Tijuca, near the Lagoa de Jacarepagua. The beginning of the works is scheduled for January 2011. The area of 1 million square meters will have 48 buildings of 12 floors each, meeting the accessibility rules. The apartments have 3-4 rooms with an average of 14m ², air-conditioning, living room and balcony. Additional facilities will have a training center for 11 olympic sports and 8 Paralympic, a distance that can be traversed on foot. There will also be a beach for the athletes, just ten minutes from the village. Across the street, a park will be built with recreational facilities including tennis courts, beach volleyball and soccer, and water activities such as windsurfing and kayaking. The total project is budgeted at $ 2-5 billion, on land owned by the builder Carvalho Hosken. Altogether 2,500 direct jobs will be generated. Source: globoesporte.com

The only thing I really don't like is the color of the chairs. Red does not suits Maracana, nor Rio. The people of SSC gave an idea of using the pattern of sidewalk in Copacabana. I made this based on the idea:

The renders of your post shows a lower stand with inclination below the recommended. If they lower the field to correct the visibility in the lower stands, will create blind spots in the upper stand. That is why they moved forward the lower stands, keeping the same inclination of the upper stand. The project of Maracana is excllent as it was produced under strict observations of FIFA regarding the visibility and comfort. The only thing you know is criticize, no matter what the project presented. From what I see in your posts, if they had submitted a project exactly the way you want, you would look for another point to criticize.

They already lowered the field for the panam. They can't do it again because will create blind points.

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I think it was demolished. Part of the upper sector will also be reconfigured.

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Every action is accompanied by a reaction. When we destroy an anthill, the ants become agitated. When the leukocytes attack the bacterias, we have a fever at first, but then then we're better. The police are occupying areas that were the domain of criminals. I see it as a desperate move, but this tactic of burning vehicles will not intimidate the police. The police are doing their part and reacting to attacks. We will suffer these inconveniences now but in four years the situation will improve. I hope.

They already have a render or somethimg?