London 2012 Olympics

[Desi]

Olympic Park
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/1566/eastlondonxn5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Canary Wharf
http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/438/728canarywharf2008pic1ci4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/3716/canarywharf2008nm3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The City
http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/1213/london4jgoo0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/7370/cityoflondon2008ed7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[wjfox2007]

No offence but this thread is rubbish - these renderings are ancient, and there's no information.

Anyway, there's already a thread for London.

[ablarc]

Has the Shard grown shorter and fatter?

[ryeler]

No offence but this thread is rubbish - these renderings are ancient, and there's no information.

Anyway, there's already a thread for London.

woah, a little critical? I think it's fine, gives insight to what's happening in a variety of areas of london. I also agree with ablarc, it does look different. Is it still being built ?

[BenL]

I don't think there's a real need for a seperate Olympics thread - especially when this topic doesn't really seem to be focused on the Games at all with its Canary Wharf and Shard renders. I believe that's an old render of the Shard, with the cancelled Minerva tower still shown. It's from the Skyscrapernews.com website which did a lot of renderings a few years back - I don't know if this is an official rendering or not.

[ryeler]

I am starting to think the same thing, but a little something on the side; it never says it is an olympic thread, it just has an olympic section, for the year 2012

[Luca]

anyhow, the "London projects" thread is way too unwieldy now, not to mention full of rants.

[Gregory Tenenbaum]

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/7370/cityoflondon2008ed7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Where are the evil Skepsis?

Reminds me of the Dark Crystal.

How utterly ugly.

[Luca]

Well, yes, all the propsoed towers for london are ugly. I've yet to see a skyscraper of the last, oh,, 60 years that does nto look like utter shit.

[ablarc]

I've yet to see a skyscraper of the last, oh,, 60 years that does nto look like utter shit.
Bank of America, Charlotte (Cesar Pelli):

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/charlotte07.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/charlotte.htm&h=800&w=547&sz=64&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=U4fNQYPBUwdNAM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbank%2Bof%2Bamerica%2Bcharlotte%2Bpel li%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGWYA,GW YA:2005-21,GWYA:en%26sa%3DN

Deco Revival.

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[Luca]

Bank of America, Charlotte (Cesar Pelli):
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/charlotte07.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/charlotte.htm&h=800&w=547&sz=64&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=U4fNQYPBUwdNAM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbank%2Bof%2Bamerica%2Bcharlotte%2Bpel li%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGWYA,GW YA:2005-21,GWYA:en%26sa%3DN
Deco Revival.
.

Ok, smartass..... :p

Though Pelli is no longer 'fashionable', he's done some nice quasi-deco stuff. The step-backs I really like. The 'crown' is a bit...'underpsecified' though, you must admit. But yeh, better than modt stuff these days.

I'd like to see someone have the cojones to build a tower with the detailing/spirit of, say, a Chanin Building. I bet the starchitects and their pathetic lackeys like Orussoif would wail like bashees, but everyone else would love it. ;)

Oh, well, my shop's being taken over, maybe I'll get the boot and finally make the jump to developer one of these day...

[ZippyTheChimp]

anyhow, the "London projects" thread is way too unwieldy now, not to mention full of rants.Rants will quickly follow. It just means two threads for the moderators to police.

London 2012 means the Olympics. If this thread becomes a 2nd London Projects thread, it will be closed.

[ZippyTheChimp]

^
Read the posting guidelines in Forum Rules of Conduct. Your images were too large. I would have fixed them except for you sily remark that a Mod must have changed the title of your thread.

Resize your images, or post them as links in the proper thread, not here.

[Gregory Tenenbaum]

I knew that that tower reminded me of something. And not just the Dark Crystal either.

It looks a little like the Ryugyong Hotel, yet to be completed, in the North Korean capital.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

[Desi]

^
Read the posting guidelines in Forum Rules of Conduct. Your images were too large. I would have fixed them except for you sily remark that a Mod must have changed the title of your thread.

Resize your images, or post them as links in the proper thread, not here.


lolzzz but its true init, i didnt write that, so who else ?

[Luca]

Rants will quickly follow. It just means two threads for the moderators to police.

London 2012 means the Olympics. If this thread becomes a 2nd London Projects thread, it will be closed.

Just ban Greggy T from posting on threads that in any way have to do with Britain and/or mention anything having to do with the British isles :D :D :D

[Gregory Tenenbaum]

Just ban Greggy T from posting on threads that in any way have to do with Britain and/or mention anything having to do with the British isles :D :D :D

Well it does look a lot like that North Korean half finished hotel.

As for that comment Luca, well, all I can say is that I would comment about any country that I had feelings for as I do, in the way that I feel - and I don't see a lot of Italians or others here wanting to prove that their **** is bigger than our ****, even if it is. The Brits here seem to be very good at that.

[GreenwichSE10]

well um maybe they been ..i dont know provoked by some attention seeking clueless anglophobe half-wit who talks complete bollocks.

[dragonslayer]

Well it does look a lot like that North Korean half finished hotel.

As for that comment Luca, well, all I can say is that I would comment about any country that I had feelings for as I do, in the way that I feel - and I don't see a lot of Italians or others here wanting to prove that their **** is bigger than our ****, even if it is. The Brits here seem to be very good at that.

Tut.