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With the Rio Olympics having recently opened, for better or worse in Brazil’s case, it’s natural to look back at the largely resounding success which was London’s 2012 Games. In the midst of a terrible recession, the UK pulled out all the stops and managed to achieve a truly unifying experience (even if that unity has slightly been undermined by more recent events). In architectural terms, 2012 was also something of
a watershed – it marked one of the first major events where statement architecture was explicitly modulated to a more humble shape, to fit sustainability aims. This meant that many structures were designed to be com- pletely demountable, as opposed to lasting landmarks. The most obvious example was the stadium,
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designed by Populous, which was particularly unpretentious compared with its predecessor, the stunning Bird’s Nest in Beijing. Simple and functional, its design “embraced the temporary” in the architects’ words, and reduced materials and labour required to construct it where possible. This went as far as sinking the structure in the ground creating a natural bowl seating 25,000 and thereby reducing the scale of its above-ground structure. The design’s exposing of the structure in a straightforward way had a refreshing honesty. The laudable sustainability ambitions were
doubtless backed by a squad of enthusiastically frugal QS’ in Lord Coe’s team, but the resulting “reduce, reuse and recycle” design offered up an example of a less grandiose public leisure building for the future. Providing a no-nonsense, lightweight and flexible backdrop for events is a reasonable goal, particularly
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given the fickle nature of their ongoing use. (Although the Bird’s Nest is fantastic). The design of the London 2012 stadium’s ‘legacy’ (to use one of this century’s most overused clichEs) equipped it with the potential to be demounted from a 60,000 seater venue to a 25,000 seater for smaller events as required. However as might have been predicted in such an overstuffed city, the demand for a big, shiny, new venue from certain quarters was always going to be intense. As we go to press on ADF, West Ham is about to
move into the stadium which saw Usain, Mo and Jess all displaying so much genuine sporting endeavour. No doubt Hammers fans will enjoy what they might consider similar achievements there in future, but the building (including A new football-friendly roof ) represents something of a failure of ambition given that what was a flexible public building is now going to permanently house a single ‘private’ function. What will be the lasting result of Rio’s new
constructions, which have cost the country so much in lives as well as money? Legacy is all about politics and money in the end, rather than buildings. However the buildings that are left behind (where it’s deemed politically correct to be able to actually talk about them) can also provided a lasting reminder of what is possible, and perhaps where flexibility meets pragmatism. No matter how enticingly ‘pop-up’ or ‘pop-down’
we make future buildings, they are only as flexible as the mindsets of those who run them.
James Parker
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