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Junked Ship: Japan Ditches Hadid’s 2020 Olympic Stadium Design

25 Jul

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Scheduled to land like an otherworldly spacecraft in Tokyo, the curvaceous, controversial but competition-winning National Stadium designed for the 2020 Olympics by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) will be restarted from scratch.

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The structure has been criticized for everything from its mounting construction costs to its design that arguably clashes with the surrounding historic portions of the city and violates local height limits. After years of growing issues and complaints, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe finally announced a change of course: “We have decided to go back to the start on the Tokyo Olympics-Paralympics stadium plan, and start over from zero. I have been listening to the voices of the people for about a month now, thinking about the possibility of a review.”

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Intended to be a sports center to last a century, the price tag has repeatedly climbed beyond original estimates, recently reaching a reported $ 2,000,000,000, in part due to expensive materials but also the complex shape. A number of Japanese architects also weighed in, signing a petition to scrap the project – Hadid, meanwhile, as a London-based Iraqi architect, has contended that their criticism is based on the selection of a designer from outside of the country.

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Whether the 80,000-seat stadium will now be designed by another firm or simply restarted by Zaha Hadid is unclear as yet, but 7 years after she won the competition for this concept one might hope they will give her another chance to cut costs or come up with an alternative. For now, her firm has officially defended the direction they took, claiming the icon is worth the cost and comparable to other world-class sporting arenas in major cities around the globe and that local labor costs are part of the problem: “We have used our experience on major sports and cultural projects, including the hugely successful London 2012 Games and legacy, to design a stadium that can be built cost-effectively and still deliver the flexible and robust National Stadium that the Japan Sports Council requires.” Perhaps the final design solution will more closely mimic the famously futuristic 2020 Neo-Tokyo Olympic Games as predicted and portrayed in the famous 1988 anime Akira.

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Civic Camouflage: Hiding a Huge Urban Stadium in Plain Sight

13 Feb

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Sports stadiums can be contentious, particularly when located in the heart of a city, but this design works in various ways to reduce disruptions to urban fabric, slotting seamlessly into its surrounding context.

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Designed by international architecture and engineering firm Arup, the AC Milan 48,000-seat soccer club stadium in Italy is wrapped in commercial (shops, bars, hotels and restaurants) programmatic elements that work with but also independently of sporting events. Additional public-purpose elements include rooftop decks, micro-parks and playground for children.

Reinforced with soundproofing and a plan to sink its base into the ground, adding these architectural buffers on all sides helps reduce noise pollution for blocks on all sides as well as providing street-level continuity for those walking and driving through the city. Mark Wilson compares it to a combination of historical fortifications and suburban shopping centers: “around the stadium’s heart, architects will build a castle-like perimeter of restaurants, a hotel, and a sports college. From the street, the stadium just looks like a block-wide mall.”

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The stadium itself features a spectator-optimized design intended to provide the best view possible for all visitors as well as a removable roof to allow for play in various conditions.

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There are many structures that arguably should stand out from their surroundings – civic buildings like city halls, for instance – but sports stadiums rarely look good in and of themselves, and far too frequently interrupt what is going on in the cities around them. Typically, “even the most beautifully designed stadiums are an eyesore. They’re sprawling moles protruding from the skin of an urban environment, distended to accommodate a wide footprint of seats low to the ground.”

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Canon 60D Time-Lapse – Arlington, TX Cowboys Stadium

28 Jan

Shot a quick time-lapse with the Canon 60D tonight. 553 photographs, 2 Second exposures, shot every two seconds, manual focus, manual white balance. Tripod mounted with intervalometer. FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: twitter.com FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK: facebook.com Website TechnicallyCre8tive.com

This is a comparison for beginners to help understand the differences between a cheaper DSLR, canon t3i rebel (600d), and a more advances DSLR camera, canon 60d.
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Coldplay – Clocks, Fix You & Every Teardrop is a Waterfall (Live @ London Emirates Stadium 2012 )

11 Dec

Coldplay London Emirates Stadium 1 June 2012 Last 3 songs of the day: Clocks, Fix You, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall Apologies for the shaky camera work – I was not permitted to shoot as I was holding “an oversized camera”, so I had be a bit more discrete than I wished. Hope you could still get a bit of the atmosphere and enjoy the live music despite the bad quality. Shot with Nikon D800 with 24-120/4

 
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