- Jan 4, 2005
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Can't imagine they'd let them dismantle the olympic stadium, im not one to bash itk but smells abit iffy to me
I did a postgrad uni project on this exact topic a couple of years ago (you could call me a visionary I suppose - posted the idea on here to guage reaction back then too) and trust me the olympic stadium will be a piece of shit (unless they have drastically changed the design), pretty much a temporary structure (think scaffolding covered with plastic sheets with large images of olympic greats) with the original idea to massively downsize to a small athletics venue and possible duel use with a small club like orient. That plus the running track mean it has to be bulldozed to create a decent football stadium. This should have all been sorted years ago so a permanent stadium could be built to do both jobs properly, i.e retractable seating to cover the track like the stade de france.
On dragons ITK, you do not just pick up a design for something as complex as a stadium in a city and plonk it on another site, there are hundreds of different factors to consider like orientation, urban grain, pedestrian movements, impact on surroundings, appearance from key views etc. It would have to be redesigned, not completely perhaps - the seating layout could be reused for example, but drastically revised. If we really are going to start from scratch on the statford site then I would be much more comfortable with the idea than messing about with a huge conversion project on a shit stadium to start with.
The transport links at stratford will be fantastic from what I hear, eurostar, DLR etc. Could allow me to get to alot more games, would be great for our european fans too.