Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 6:28AM
stephanie in architecture

Populous. The Stadium, London 2012 Olympics. photo: Alex Sturrock

Stadium as a 21st century pantheon: it all seems so light, so far.  Delicate structures, cabled, stretched fabric, pale and luminous, strangely intimate give these buildings' sizes. 

The crumpled distressed logo is at odds with the grace of some of the architecture.  

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