Olympics 2012 from squintopera on Vimeo
HOK commissioned Squint/Opera to make a film about their design for the main Olympic Stadium in the East end of London for 2012. A hard task to promote a stadium design after Herzog and de Meuron’s masterpiece.
Squint opera – based in London - is maybe the most sophisticated architecture animation studio in the industry.
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so we're considering the bird's nest a masterpiece now eh? wow... maybe i should go back to architecture school and focus on how to pull a fast one on the public using media-hyped nonsense. Did we learn nothing from FLW? Herzog + the Moron are thugs of architecture...
holy crap. How much did they pay for one second of that video? Too bad all the video in the world wont bring the stadium up to HD&M level but the video itself was impressive. Really capitalizes on those cook pods haha.
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E. by just not using "WE" you can stand out and give us your own opinion. nobody forces you to think it is a good project. give us constructive critic.
do i sense some frustration here?
personally i think that visually it is a a good project, and i cannot wait to go there and find out how the architecture is.
tuition is a good thing and can save the mediocre.
Sure Thing, I'll give it a shot... So architecture, roughly defined has something to do with the structure of knowledge, yes? so what does this stadium accomplish that the Astrodome, Superdome or Yankee stadium, or any of the myriad of other stadiums around the world haven't already? Though i must admit i haven't made the trek to china to check it out in person, I can assure you it falls squarely into the home depot-esqe conventions of stadium design.
Perhaps I'm asking too much of architects and the general public to look beyond what they think they already know about structures.
Perhaps H&DM really thought they were pushing some envelope and the design was muddled behind restrictions of capacity, code (not that there's much of that in china) restrictions and the like. So what of the Birds-nestiness of the thing? I tell you it falls into the realm of whimsy for lack of substantial metaphor and lyricism. When the form of the thing is abstracted and distilled down to its essential nature, we're not left with much that we haven't already known.
OK, super! It looks a lot like a gigantic birds nest, and succeeded in being referred to as such.
So what of it? What does this simile do for our notions of sport and sportsmanship? Should we act as birds in a nest being fed our cultural sustenance after it has been regurgitated by the care taker (actually that's a good one, read china and censorship)?
Or is the prose of architecture really non-existent?
I'm of the mind that unfortunately, the latter is true in this case.
Is it a building?
yes.
Is it architecture?
don't think so.
Is it a masterpeice?
refer to preceeding answer.
i love this
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