Athens olympic stadium; seen from a friend?s rooftop. At night. This is, for a purpose, not listed under architecture. It is closer to "fashion". Nevertheless it looked seductive from nick?s rooftop that night. Isn?t that what they are supposed to do? Look sexy and attract attention that is? Get hypnotized, go closer, get in, watch athletics, listen to music, be happy, forget to rebel, go home, ...sleep? ????????????????????. I was also experimenting with the lubitel as well? ?gave this a long exposure? ???????????? Well I prefer if you saw it as a spaceship that landed on a northern Athenian suburb; surrounded itself with a protective glow and left us all Athenians to witness its ?glory?. ????????????. Oh how wonderful if it took off. Oh how amazing would it be if it left with all those airheads aboard that allowed it to be built; Oh how grateful I would be if it went and dropped on Calatrava?s backyard? ???????????????. ahh... dream on kosti? ?????????. my only hope; the birds; they will pass and leave their bombs; stain their stupid whiteness? and then, when the cost to clean will prove overwhelming, then, they might even decide to bring it down? ?the birds!!!
actually the locals loved it, alastair :-) I guess I am one of the weird ones that found this offensive; a stadium is offensive to begin with for a democracy; (wherever you gather people in numbers and treat them as mass and pass your message by giving them spectacles you definetely function in non-democratic ways) but the roof of this stadium (the roof was what got constructed) ended being so expensive that we could have built a new stadium right from scratch and if the procedures were followed there would even be an architectural competition for it. (there wasn't one; the architect got the commission from the minister due to the delay of the procedures! wonderful bureaucracy and lots of deals we, as public, did not get to know) These matters ofcourse happen all over the world. Seeing this though in my "backyard" made me want to comment on it and also include all this in the architectural evaluation of the stadium. .......................................... straightening the horizon is super valid; I'll do it. thanks alastair
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Alastair Bell{K:29571} 1/20/2005
I get the impression the stadium was not popular with the locals then? We never get to hear about the local viewpoint on the news programs (unless it is so unpopular it provokes riots!). Its a shame the image is a bit fuzzy as it could be quite something... I would also straighten the horizon... Thanks for sharing, Alastair
Jaques I should have put fashion in "". or even better call it fad. Actually I'll do it immediately after this post. "Fashion" was not needed for the olympic stadium. It resembles an expensive bridal gown that was wrapped around our ugly (old existing stadium) daughter so that she could find and dazzle a groom... What was needed, even for a stadium, was a smart architectural idea. That wasn't it, according to my opinion... thanks for pointing this out, since it read as if I thought of fashion in a negative manner. kosti
Jaques I should have put fashion in "". or even better call it fad. Actually I'll do it immediately after this post. "Fashion" was not needed for the olympic stadium. It resembles an expensive bridal gown that was wrapped around our ugly (old existing stadium) daughter so that she could find and dazzle a groom... What was needed, even for a stadium, was a smart architectural idea. That wasn't it, according to my opinion...
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