London Olympics pool unveiled with one year to go
The London 2012 Aquatics Centre has been unveiled, completed on time and on budget.
August 11, 2011 | Posted in Feature Articles | Read More »
The London 2012 Aquatics Centre has been unveiled, completed on time and on budget.
The rumours had been circulating for months – people had seen him training here, there and everywhere. Finally, they were confirmed with Australia’s biggest name in swimming, five gold medaller Ian Thorpe, saying he will come back to the pool with the aim of competing at London 2012.
The fluid design of London's Olympic Aquatic Centre
The pool for the London 2012 Olympics is coming along nicely.
Work is underway cladding the curved ceiling with more than 30,000 individual sections of timber and on the two 1600 tonne temporary seating stands that will boost the venue to 17,500 seats for the Games.
More than 180,000 white [...]