No retractable roof for stadium
Here’s a surprise: the Olympic stadium will not get a retractable roof. No, this is not old news, the date on this story is March 3, 2021.
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Faiz Imam 14:16 on 2021-03-03 Permalink
The big reason this is news is as a result of Québec pulling out of he 2026 world cup.
Those games need to be in an open air stadium, so they added a requirement to the bid.
Now that the games are gone, there’s really no reason.
A lot of complexity and cost, plus a higher chance of failure. so it’s a good thing.
Can I hope that the project will not blow its budget “as much” due to this change?
Francesco 21:57 on 2021-03-03 Permalink
I know I may not be in the minority on *this* blog, but I sure am one of the sole voice in my circles that has *hated* the idea of such a ludicrous endeavour as hosting three WC matches at a cost of close to a billion or more. Thank FSM logic prevailed. Now if we could only stop spending on that damn stadium.
Kate 10:49 on 2021-03-04 Permalink
The stadium was always meant to have a retractable roof, but evidently nobody looked into whether such a thing had ever been done, or what firms had experience with similar technologies. (The answer on that seems to be zero – it was going to have to be invented from scratch, and it still hasn’t been.)
Or nobody, at the time, cared.
I still can’t quite believe Jean Drapeau selected Roger Taillibert, all of whose work had been done in France and hot dry places like Qatar and Abu Dhabi, to design a stadium in a place where winters with a few meters of snow accumulation are routine.
Kevin 12:24 on 2021-03-04 Permalink
Kate,
If it’s not from France it doesn’t exist 🙂