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London 2012 Olympic pool in more trouble
Contractors bidding for the 2012 Olympic Pool, designed by Zaha Hadid, have expressed concern over the design and material for part of the roof structure. A lot of people seem to want this project to fail, for some reason. BBC
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Probably because the architect's a women. Everyone knows women can't be architects.
It's not the "roof" after all, just the wood-cladding for the ceiling. http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSL0254611920080702
You can't trust mainstream news on architecture - even the architecture critics barely know structure from envelope half the time.
well, and the british, sadly dont know better these days. just have a look at the Olympics Stadium.
I honestly feel bad for Zaha its like Cardiff all over again. I'm sure before this is all over they will can her and bring some wankster to design an alternative. it seems stinks of back door dealings, etc
yellow journalism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/spanamer/yellow.htm
there's very little merit in this story. not that it MIGHT NOT end up true, but for right now it's irresponsible journalism at best.
Leaking Stata, flooded Valencia, a poorly-designed Olympic Pool Envelope and poor material selection, leave a clear impression that certain professional group's understanding of habitable space, in its fullest sense, is rather superficial, not to say: mediocre.
These are architecture's "Nobel Prize" recipients?
It is clear that although many architects would prefer to to write-this-off as yellow journalism, there is ample merit in documenting -and making public- design disagreements between architects and contractors, especially in the case of tax-payer-funded construction.
Shame on you.
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