Tag: Olympics - Page 4
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Olympic 2012 Posters Get a Gold Medal
The winning posters for London's 2012 Olympics have been released and many deserve a Gold.
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The Boat Project is Olympic Art
Every Olympic games have to have a cultural component and London is going at it full speed. A massive red sculpture by Anish Kapoor will tower over the site and posters by 12 modern British artists will be created around the
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Velodrome Misses the Gold in Architecture Olympics
The Velodrome, the jewel of London's 2012 Olympic buildings, did not win the gold in the architecture Olympics. Aka the RIBA Stirling Prize, it's the big architecture prize in the UK.
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Olympic Torch Designers Show Their Work
The designers of the Olympic Torch for the London 2012 Olympics are Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. They are a well respected and well-known duo who have been working in industrial design for the last 15 years.
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Watch Films on Recycled Fridges
Here's a project that gives a whole new meaning to pop-up and recycling. Films on Fridges is an outdoor cinema made entirely from discarded refrigerator doors. It has popped up near the 2012 Olympic Park.
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2012 Olympic Stamps Issued to Celebrate Games
Make your snail mail look great: it's one year to the start of the 2012 Olympic Games and Royal Mail is issuing a set of ten beautiful stamps to celebrate the countdown.
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First London Olympics Gold Medal Should Go to the Velodrome
The London 2012 Olympics are coming up pretty quickly. Tickets are on sale, the clock is ticking away (sometimes when it works) on Trafalgar Square and slowly buildings are being completed and unveiled.
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Zaha Hadid's London Olympic Swimming Pool Already Under Water
London's successful bid for the Olympic 2012 Games was based on its commitment to a sustainable legacy: that's Olympic-speak for maintaining and reusing the buildings for athletic and community use
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Future of London's Olympic Buildings After the Games isn't Assured
London's successful bid for the Olympic 2012 Games was based on its commitment to a sustainable legacy: maintaining and reusing the buildings for athletic and community use after the big event. Happily, sanity has prevailed and
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Olympic Gymnast to Teach Zoo Orangutans How to Swing
Few animals are as adept at swinging through the treetops as our primate cousins - but sometimes even they could use a refresher course. After years of being limited to mostly terrestrial locomotion, a group of orangutans at a
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Touring the Olympic 2012 Site
The spotlight turned on East London for the second weekend in the London Festival of Architecture. That's where the London 2012 Olympics will be held, as will the last 6km of the London Olympic Marathon. In
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London's Green Olympics are Looking Brown
London's 2012 Olympic pledge, to be the greenest Olympic Games ever, started with great enthusiasm. But some wondered about that goal when McDonalds was announced as the official supplier of food. Then came the
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Huge Artificial Waterfall Structure Designed for Rio
With its burgeoning economy and bold commitments to reducing carbon emissions and deforestation, Brazil is poised to be an important player in the years and decades to come. So for many Brazilian, having their beloved city of Rio
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Olympics Organizers Sweating Over Lack of Snowfall
While the Eastern seaboard of the US faces whiteout conditions, the host city for the Winter Olympics, set to open this Friday, is finding itself strangely short on snow. Since
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'Build Paris on Paris' & Other Good Ideas for Growth
Dense urban centers are good; sprawling suburbs are bad. Put in the simplest terms, that's what the
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Artists are Taking the Lead at the 2012 Olympics
The summer Olympics are being held in the London area in 2012 and all kinds of community events are being planned. Artists Taking the Lead is a project whereby 12 winning artists will be awarded up to £500,000 to create 12
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U Illinois Urbana Saves $5 Million From Energy Efficiency
Here's a good story about how the University of Illinois, Urbana campus upgraded old systems and ended up not only reaching its energy efficiency goals ahead of schedule but also how it saved the school about $5 million in
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Beijing's Olympic Pollution Solution: Luck + Data Manipulation
At last summer's Olympics, Beijing came out on top in the medal count and on the balance sheets. But as the city's air pollution again pushes dangerous levels, two new reports point out that pollution during the Games was
