{"id":2520,"date":"2012-08-29T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T08:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2012-08-27T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:30:12","slug":"olympics-2-the-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=2520","title":{"rendered":"Olympics 2 &#8211; The Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2508\" title=\"The Aquatic Centre, London Olympics 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD2072.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD2072.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD2072-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD2072-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I only had about an hour to spend wandering around the Olympic park after the Basketball? matches I had been watching finished before I had to cross London for a meeting a the the WWT London Wetlands Centre, so this is not an exhaustive photographic library of all the buildings, but a few of some of my favourites. The permanent legacy buildings were beautiful and very well done. The full?extent of the design of the Aquatic Centre will be revealed once the temporary seating sections have been removed, but glimpses of the?overall structure give an idea of its beauty now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2504\" title=\"The ArcelorMittal Orbit, London Olympics 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1951.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1951.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1951-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1951-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have time to try and get up the Orbit, but it was proving a popular photographic subject. It struck me as a cross between a playground slide and a Roller Coaster, a real challenge to the engineers who had to build it from the designers ideas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2499\" title=\"The Basketball Arena, London Olympics 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1852.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1852.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1852-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1852-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I loved the contrast of the trees, temporary Basketball Arena and the clouds which made me take the picture above. The approach to the arena over the river Lee gave a great view of the Basketball arena and the Velodrome next door which are raised up slightly on a rise in the landscape. I was surprised at the beauty of some of the temporary structures as well, considering they were all constructed of special scaffolding and a skin wrapped around them.<\/p>\n<p>The Velodrome, covered in wood, was positioned at the top of? a rise. It stood out beautifully on the horizon when approaching it from the Olympic Stadium. As time weathers the wood it may lose the current orange colour of the wood, but the graceful sweep and curves of the design will remain. I don&#8217;t think I would want the job of preserving the wood though!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2495\" title=\"The Velodrome 1, London Olympics 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1775.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1775.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1775-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1775-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/>?? <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2494\" title=\"The Velodome 2, London Olympics 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1769.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1769-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/London-Olympics20120803_NCD1769-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only had about an hour to spend wandering around the Olympic park after the Basketball? matches I had been watching finished before I had to cross London for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}