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The Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park site was recently completed.
The building is designed and constructed for 2012 Olympic Games in London. The
building is impressive with it shape, size and design. With a year to the start
of the Olympic Games the construction is finished, the site is taking 2.5
square kilometer located in the southeast corner of the park of Stratford. The official
opening will be celebrated with synchronization British diving. Tom Daley will
be the first to splash the water in the pools. The grand opening will be
exactly a year before official Olympics games start.
The building cost is
around 268 million pounds, so it is no surprise the result is great. The main
design element it the Aquatics Centre is the roof. The shape is in the theme of
the events that will be held in the building and it is like a Wave. A Big wave
it is with a width of 262 feet and a length of more than 520 feet. The design
is from Iraq-born architect Zaha Hadid.She has won the Pritzker Prize for her
awe-inspiring designs all over the world. For now only the main building is
finished, and there still need to be added greening trees and parks, but and
now we can see the glamour of the building. The roof design is supposed to be
like a moving wave that will fit perfectly with the environment around and the
river nearby. The sports that are schedule for this Center are Diving,
Swimming, Synchronized Swimming, Paralympics Swimming and Modern Pentathlon.
Another
interesting fact is that during the 2012 games the spectators will be seated in
two temporary wings that will be taken down after the Games. The Aquatics
Centre have a 50 meters competition pool, a 25 meters competition diving pool
and 50 meters warm-up pool and a ‘dry’ warm-up area for divers. This is one
really great building and even the end of the Olympic Games at London 2012 it
will still be landmark for the city.
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