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Olympic Orbit tower to be unveiled, tallest sculpture in the UK

By davieG, in General Chat

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davieG

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Report & video - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18024138

  • Its height is 114.5m (London 2012 Olympic Stadium is 60m tall)
  • If its loops were straightened out, it would be taller than the Eiffel Tower
  • The Orbit could accommodate 5,000 visitors a day
  • There are two indoor platforms offering views of London's skyline
  • On a clear day, visitors will be able to see over 20 miles
  • 2,000 tonnes of steel have been used to build the tower
  • The spiral staircase has 455 steps

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Zingari

Zingari

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If its loops were straightened out, it would be taller than the Eiffel Tower

so what ?

if the bricks of my house were stacked on top of each other it would be higher than the post office tower .

ozleicester

ozleicester

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If its loops were straightened out, it would be taller than the Eiffel Tower

so what ?

if the bricks of my house were stacked on top of each other it would be higher than the post office tower .

ooh get mr lardy dah and his big house ;)

What determines it as a sculpture..rather than a building???

Zingari

Zingari

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ooh get mr lardy dah and his big house ;)

What determines it as a sculpture..rather than a building???

:D fancy coming round to swing a cat ?

i don't think you pay council tax on sculptures , it's a tax dodge :thumbup: I'm going down the town hall now to register my gaff as a work of art .

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i've got the unmade beds all ready for viewing

ozleicester

ozleicester

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:D fancy coming round to swing a cat ?

i don't think you pay council tax on sculptures , it's a tax dodge :thumbup: I'm going down the town hall now to register my gaff as a work of art .

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i've got the unmade beds all ready for viewing

So its more your "gallery" than house then?... is the cat swinging meant to represent the internal confusion about what is art?

Captain...

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It's not bad, but it kinda looks like a rollercoaster in meltdown. The video on the bbc site makes it look a lot better than the picture above. But when you here the artist say they wanted to deconstruct the concept of a tower:

"We wanted to make something that was kind of a deconstruction of the tower," Kapoor told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"Towers are almost always symmetrical," he continued, saying the Orbit's twisted loops were "the refusal of a singular image".

You just think oh **** off, and if the loops are supposed to represent the olympic rings why are they all red, if they used the olympic rings colours I reckon it would look much better, rather than a tangled red mess, which it does from some angles. Compare it to some of the other Iconic olympic sculptures and statues and it doesn't really stand out.

I think these olympics will be remembered for us trying too hard to be something we are not and not being able to pull it off:

Logo: http://www.webdesign...m-1924-to-2012/ all other logos have something to do with the country or city it is being staged in, our official logo is purple and yellow, doesn't even have a capital letter for London, and represents nothing of britain, no red white and blue, no iconic imagery, not even a logo of any sort just "edgey and cool" graffitti numbers.

Mascots: Most mascots are cute cuddly figures based on an animal or something of a national or local significance. This year we have an alien made from steel.

I really think we have overpaid a lot of people to over think what is a very simple premise, promote the shit out of your country, we are trying too hard to be cool and modern and innovative and it is really backfiring, people I speak to in London really don't seem that bothered by it, it has been monumentally over spent, and we are even screwing up home advantage for the athletes.

http://www.telegraph...ne-too-far.html

I am really dreading the opening ceremony, it should represent the pride of Britain, everything that is great about this country, I expect to see rappers and breakdancers, cos they are edgey and cool, and a live graffitti show all performed by eastern european immigrants because we don't want to be seen to have favouritism to British people.

James.

James.

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I can see it from the end of my road and if I had to describe it in 3 words they would be massive, red and shit.

rico

rico

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Bet the pikeys will have a field day nicking that for scrap lol

Captain...

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Here's the thing - if Damien Hirst decided to stack a load of old locomotives on top of each other, it would be art. And we would be philistines for questioning this.

I disagree with that, I think we can all appreciate the artistic merit in that photo. Art isn't always deliberate, and to deliberately do that could be seen as very wasteful, but it found artistic value out of function.

I guess it all depends why Damien Hirst would do it, if it was because he was trying to make a point about our badly mismanaged railway system and the fact we outsource the construction of trains to German companies, leading to the British rail industry being left on the scrap heap. Or if he did it because it looked pretty/cool or because he could.

Haydos

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Looks horrible, cost an offensive amount of money and for what reason? Disgraceful!

"The thing has to be paid for.".....No it ****ing doesn't. Don't build a ****ing ugly piece of shit heap of junk that people won't want anything to do with and then guess what? It won't have to be paid for.

lavrentis

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Looks awful.

When you look at new builds other countries have got like the Freedom tower in NYC and the Sky Tree in Tokyo everything we do seems tinpot. Maybe those buildings would look silly next to our grey boring low-rise buildings but anything is better than that olympic structure mess.

purpleronnie

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Looks awful.

When you look at new builds other countries have got like the Freedom tower in NYC and the Sky Tree in Tokyo everything we do seems tinpot. Maybe those buildings would look silly next to our grey boring low-rise buildings but anything is better than that olympic structure mess.

Have to agree and no doubt we had more meetings and spent more money than anyone else too.

Rincewind

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He didn't stack them single handed though did he? Must have had some qualified crane driver helping him so where is their credit?

Not sure about it as art.. Did he draw a plan up first ast to where each carriage was to go? It is unique and just happens that he thought of it first which because he is known to dabble in art is rated higher than if Joe Bloggs dumps a load of tyres over some wall. Hirst is paid £££ and Joe Bloggs has to pay £££ for flytipping.

AoWW

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I'm in the wrong job. :( I could design deconstruct something like that. :D

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