Rob2012 Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 I've just watched it myself and I actually don't think Kapoor came across particularly well in parts, nor did it seem he could convince himself he liked it. I say that because he seemed quite dismissive. I mean, you look at those early designs with the open staircases. Of course that was never going to fly! So why did they design it like that, then have to rework it in to the compromise we now have? I just feel if these things were considered more realistically and less idealistically by the artist at the very start it wouldn't look so messy. A solution could have surely been reached where the architecture didn't compromise the art quite so much. The programme was spot on; the stairs are the fatal flaw. I've got used to the fairly ordinary looking viewing platform now (I still wish it was less 'functional'), and the looping structure itself is great, but the stairs are such a huge wart on the face of this tower. I hope the experience of going up it rescues it. I'll find out on July 29th... But yeah, as TBF says, watch the promgramme on iPlayer. http://www.bbc.co.uk...e_Show_Special/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tower Bridge Fox Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 Kapoor Came across very well and was the reason it was worth watching , Along with his relationship with Catherine Findely who is a very good architect in her own right. Interesting points razed where a Glass floor in the observation deck which Kapoor didn’t want , presumably Boris did. I have mixed feeling on this it may have been interesting but personally I don’t like standing on those things, I agree with Kapoor also that its not just the way it looks its the way it feels, if it was just the look we would have nothing but visual pap, The views of the presenter can be taken with a pinch of salt as the Culture show is not a high end arts show. the presenter would be beter suited to radeo one. In any creative collaboration there will be heated debates as was the case with kapoor and Findlay, I actually like the way Findlay’s architecture reacts to Koppres sculpture. And Kapoor looked happy with the end result to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 The presenter's personal views are as relevent as yours or mine and I daresay he knows more about art than either of us, being the Telegraph's deputy arts editor. I can only assume the jibe about him being better suited to Radio 1 is because of his age. http://unitedagents..../alastair-sooke It wasn't a sycophantic presentation of the sculputre and its creators as it could've been from the BBC (who are after all the Olympic broadcaster), but nor was it dismissive of the structure just because it's not conventionally pretty. It did try to get under the skin of the sculpture, and it did - more importantly - reveal the competing visions of Boris, Kapoor, the architects and and the compromises that followed. The only disappointment for me about the programme was the fact the initial competition for the commission was glossed over. I'd have liked them to have discussed that more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekekelso Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 What bothers me about Kapoor is that he keeps saying things like, "The Eiffel Tower was hated by everybody for 50 years, or something like that. Now it's a mainstay of how we understand Paris. We'll see what happens here." That's just blatantly false. The Eiffel Tower was criticized during the design phase, mostly by artists, many of whose designs were rejected. But the tower was already exceedingly popular before it was completed. Popular form the start with both the general public, and many of the “experts” who had criticized the initial design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevzz Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 The latest issue of The Architect's Journal feature the Orbit on its cover and an in-depty review headlined: Awkward, bizarre, sublime. Mixed review but odd enough, despite being tauted the worst part of the tower, the critic wrote the best experience is when coming down the stairs. He even lauded it to be "one of London’s greatest ‘rooms’ – for that will be how the mesh-enclosed spiral stairway must surely come to be seen in." Interesting. Because from the picture the inside of the stairs looks really claustrophobic and cagey. I have a feeling it is more transparent if experienced in person and the motion of spiralling through the 'intestines' of the Orbit structure is the saving grace of the architecture. You can only tell when descending it in person! Oh the article can be read online here http://m.architectsjournal.co.uk/8631625.article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brekkie Boy Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 Verey Pleased I finaly have a ticket for the Orbit. not pleased about having to pay another £6 delivery fee when I have already payed a delivery fee for another ticket on that day.greeeeee You can console yourself with the knowledge that while you're in it you won't have to look at it. It's getting worse to the eye, not better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tower Bridge Fox Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 Here is one of my pictures from the top of the orbit ,It really is extraordinary, you feel like you can see 100 miles, any one who doesent get up the orbit during the Olympics should make sure they get a ticket for the paprylimpics durimg the Olympics should get a ticket for the Paralympics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiFreak Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 ^Hmm, it appears that pic was taken in 2007... I want to see how the park looks now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 That is now, his camera obviously needs sorting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiFreak Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 That is now, his camera obviously needs sorting. I knew that, hence the... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 My photos from Sunday 29th: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiFreak Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Can someone explain to me what those spinning things on the poles are in the park? I saw them on TV and I see them in the photos above. Wind turbines or some art piece or both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarJoLe Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Wind turbines which power the LEDs which run around the ringed bits at night. The Park has a bit of reputation for being rather windy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY20?? Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 I've always known London's Park was huge, but finally seeing those concourses packed with people makes the scale a lot more apparent. Impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 So apparently they're going to be installing a helter skelter on this. Not joking! Actually quite a good idea....but kinda ridiculous at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 So apparently they're going to be installing a helter skelter on this. Not joking! Actually quite a good idea....but kinda ridiculous at the same time. Whoooooooo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 I assume you mean Wheeeeeeeeeee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekekelso Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Anything other than "we are tearing to down" is not "good news." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Still an ugly mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 And what could possibly go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Lawsuit! Lawsuit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekekelso Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 We don't have these in the United States. But this is my understanding of how they work: When you get to the bottomYou go back to the top of the slideAnd you stop and you turnAnd you go for a rideThen you get to the bottom Either that, or you go out and kill a bunch of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 I assume you mean Wheeeeeeeeeee! From that height, more likely Weeeeeeeeee ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 That ugly lump really added nothing to that park, world art or the Games- I imagine if it wasn't there we would have got a dramatic tall cauldron .....as per the early plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 That ugly lump really added nothing to that park, world art or the Games- I imagine if it wasn't there we would have got a dramatic tall cauldron .....as per the early plans. I think somebody probably realised, very early on, that the taller your cauldron, the more fuel you need to make the flame look impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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