THOUGHTS: Not a big Hadid fan now ~ in my youth I would have loved her, if she’d been around ~ but I love the contrast between the seats and the structure in this photo.
The Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid Architects has opened in Guangdong province, China.
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THOUGHTS: This is just plain Tron fun…
from AMUSEMENT
Dans un mouvement inverse à celui de Tron : L’héritage, le disques’est échappé du Grid pour pénétrer le réel. Et le scinder en deux.
Photographie : Khuong Nguyen
Retouche : Frédéric Witzgall @ Le Moulin de Doc
Assistants : Mathieu Backx, Giulio
Model : Jackie the dog
Agent : Twop (Pascale Perez)
Remerciements : Bertrand Tronsson et le studio Le Petit Oiseau Va Sortir
THOUGHTS: Seeing this building makes me long for the days when I was 16 and a cyclist.
from Dezeen
London firm Hopkins Architects have completed the Velodrome, the first of the five permanent venues on the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The hyperbolic paraboloid-shaped steel-framed structure sits on a 360 degree glazed concourse at entry level, and is clad in timber with little apertures to allow for natural ventilation.
The lightweight, double-curving, cable-net roof structure was designed to reflect the shape of the cycling track.
6,000 seats are located all the way around the track and are split into an upper and lower tier by the glazed concourse.
48,000 cubic metres of material was excavated to create the bowl in which the building sits.
The London 2012 Velodrome will host the Olympic and Paralympic indoor cycling events and also includes changing rooms, retail facilities, workshop and a viewing concourse.
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