The concept is part of a new approach
The concept is part of a new approach to the Olympic Games. Rather than building everything new every four years, the “prefab” stadium idea allows facilities to be built in one city, moved as efficiently as possible and be adapted to existing arenas in the new host city.
aqian100319 In the case of London, this particular stadium was specifically designed by HOK Sport to be disassembled and sold on, preventing wasteful obsolescence. The London Olympic Stadium is effectively designed as a 25,000 seat concrete bowl that has an additional 55,000 seats placed on top of it in a temporary structure. It is this entire upper structure which can be moved and installed somewhere else.
Currently, talks are underway with Chicago, but London organizers hope that their offer is taken up by whoever wins the games. If the plan goes forward, this would be the largest amount of seats ever moved from one place to the next, and the first time in history that a stadium of this size has been moved The Long Now Blog ? Drawing out time’s layers Here’s an amazing video by Italian street artist Blu: Muto,
It could mean, for instance, that once a traveller has paid for a hotel room online the key to get in the room can be texted to them. “In addition to the key itself the guest will also get a welcome receipt specifying the room he is staying at,” says Gard Gabrielsen from electronic lock maker Vingcard Elsafe that has developed a hotel booking system using NFC.
He will also typically get the GPS coordinates to the hotel he is staying at,” he adds. “But the key thing is that when the guest is then coming to the hotel he can totally bypass the reception desk and go straight to his room,” he says. “The telephone itself will open the door by just presenting the phone in front of the card reader.”