The mother ship – Olympic Park, London Feb 2012
The London Olympic velodrome is in the Velopark section of the Olympic park in east London, and is only the third 250m covered cycling track in the UK. According to Wikipedia, It was designed by Hopkins Architects and completed earlier this year at an estimated cost of just over £100 million. Designer Ron Webb who designed the Velodrome tracks for the Sydney and Athens Games was in charge of the design and installation of the track, which was built using 56 km of Siberian Pine and 350,000 nails. The Velodrome is informally known as “The Pringle” due to its distinctive snack-like roof shape, but up close and personal last Saturday when I went to watch the World Cup track sycling event there, it looked more like some sort of beautiful alien mother ship – a close encounter of the Olympic kind.
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