The Lightest Olympic Stadium in History

London is trying to revive the run down East London area by hosting Olympic games there. The main Olympic Stadium will morph into a smaller community stadium after the games are over. The seating capacity will reduce from 80,000 to 25,000. This shrinkable stadium will be cost effective, energy efficient and use only 11,000 tons of steel as against 42,000 tons of steel used by the 2008 Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing.

“That the core concept of creating a large-scale arena that could easily become smaller led to money-saving construction and operational solutions illustrates how one inventive, focused design goal can often lead to others. While the Olympic Stadium designed by Populous won’t be a permanent landmark in its full form, the creative ideas behind it will likely resonate and live on.”



Reference: Jana, Reena, London’s Olympic Stadium: larger than life but built to shrink, smartplanet.com, June 19, 2012
 

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