Posts Tagged ‘olympics’

First Look at 2016 Olympics In Rio

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

OK, we know that the London Olympics are still a year away but already, the architectural and design plans are underway for the 2016 Olympics in sunny Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Nothing like a little forward planning, eh?

Would you like to see how things are shaping up? Just watch the video above to get a flavour of what is being planned by recently revealed winning firm, AECOM, which designed the Olympic Master Plan for next year’s London Olympics too.

Be warned however that the video editing is choppy, fast and may make your nauseous as it flits about the screen but you get some idea when it slows down in the second minute about what it all might look like. And it does look impressive.

According to ArchDaily, …

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‘Cargotecture’ At Its Best: The View Tube Café

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

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Overlooking the site of the London 2012 Olympics, the new View Tube café is not what you’d normally expect from your local coffee shop. In fact, there are probably very few coffee shops built from old shipping containers and, if there are, they probably don’t look quite as cool as this one. We like cargotecture for a number of reasons and you can find a number of excellent and innovative examples in our previous blog ‘Thinking Outside The Container’.

This is ‘cargotecture’ at its best and it’s the 40th structure built from old shipping containers at London’s Container City. Read the rest of this entry »