The cost for avant-garde architect Zaha Hadid‘s aquatics center more than trebles to Ј242m
Designed by the avant-garde architect Zaha Hadid and with a wave-shaped roof rising just higher than the main stadium, London’s Olympic aquatics center is the ambitious design that helped London persuade the International Olympic Committee to back its bid.
It was conceived as the centerpiece of the 2012 games, a symbol of the regeneration they would bring to east London, and a world-class arena in which the finest swimmers and divers would perform. It may yet fulfill some of those grand designs. But the journey from drawing board to the brink of construction has been painful as well as embarrassing.
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