Tuesday, January 5, 2016

The Grand Tour: London Aquatics Centre


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After Colchester we stopped in at the Olympic Park in London.

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The distinctive Aquatics centre was designed by Zaha Hadid, who is well known here in Japan for having designed the new olympic stadium but then having the design rejected.

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There are some design similarities between the two projects, and I have no idea what the general opinion is but I quite like it. I also liked her Tokyo proposal.

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In general I like architecture that utilizes curves. I would have liked to go inside but we were short of time.

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