Construction of London 2012 Olympic Stadium completed

It’s on the newspaper today…that the construction of the main venue for London 2012 Summer Olympic Games is completed. It’s called as Olympic Stadium, London and it will be the third largest stadium in Britain after Wembley and Twickenham. With maximum seating of 80 000 people for Olympic to host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the athletic events, the stadium will be scaled down to a stadium of 60 000 seats. Part of the upper tier will be dismantled after the games as a solution for a more environmental and economically friendly structure.

The construction of the stadium is stated to have completed today with the final piece of turf laid on the field of play. Construction started in May 2008, and less than three years, the stadium is now completed with some final touches like landscaping, wall finishes, and laying of running tracks to be done before the end of the year. It is definitely a great achievement to the builders and contractors that over 5000 in number. The stadium is definitely completed on time and under budget as well as with exemplary safety record.

There is nothing interesting on the architecture of the stadium which is designed by Populous firm without any international design competition going on. Hence, there is no exciting or interesting idea out from this boring-looking design. It seems to be more like a structure than a work of art, unlike the main stadium for Beijing 2008 Olympic, commonly known as Bird Nest Stadium for its distinctive architecture. Many people gave bad critic on London Olympic Stadium, basically on the issue of design as well as is the stadium truly economical and environmental friendly which is arguably not so!

Fine, it’s still a magnificent structure in terms of the scale and the purpose it is built, which is for the world largest sporting event. So, everyone would still turn their eyes towards this structure too no matter how boring it looks like when the next Olympic comes in 2012. However, this structure won’t last long in terms of identity to London and it even won’t last long visually and technically due to the scaling down of the stadium after the Olympic.

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