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The Tokyo Olympic Stadium is not just an arena, but a message sent by architect Kengo Kuma to the world. - Florida News Times
"...people can still feel the breeze without air conditioning." --Kengo Kuma
The Olympics has historically been an event that brought the world together for a couple weeks, somewhere athletes could demonstrate their prowess and monetize-it all by appearing on cereal boxes of Wheaties. Of course much has changed in recent years, at least in our United States. For example we men should no longer oogle attractive female athletes, though I rebel and openly admit to lusting for Alica Schmidt, a tall, sleek blonde track star from Germany. But I digress.
Hypothetically, a city is chosen by the I.O.C. to host Olympic games by being sold a bill of goods. If that city will construct an Olympic Village and places to hold whatever wacko events on the Olympic schedule-- break dancing is debuting in 2024-- that city will receive a return on its investment many times over. Of course that's hydrogenated hogwash; just ask Montreal. Nevertheless, each four years a city and country search throughout the land for a preeminent architect to design venues in which athletes will heave javelins, long jump and run like the wind. This year Japanese architect Kengo Kuma was deemed the best, brightest and most visionary by the same nation and city that has produced the Walkman and Godzilla.
Kengo Kuma is a formidable intellectual who seeks to merge architectural engineering with art in a symbiosis "to send a very powerful message to the world." His finished products aren't for everyone. Kuma's "Sunny Hills" inspired by a Bamboo joint system, looks like a hodge-podge pile of twigs. But the good people of Tokyo undoubtedly reasoned that any architect they hired could design an ergonomically acceptable stadium, a structure that's presumably been in its present basic form since 776 BC. If Kengo Kuma needed additional clues, he could have flown to Rome to see one built around 70 AD.
Lastly, Kengo Kuma should have taken into account that being one with nature also means knowing what curveballs nature can throw during July and August. This is typhoon season and Tokyo is renown for insufferable summer heat. Because of either budgetary constraints or his own architectural vision he chose to ignore those facts. Consequently the stadium is not enclosed or air conditioned and forecasters say this could be the hottest Olympics on record. Athletes are said to be dropping like flies.
"...people can still feel the breeze without air conditioning." --Kengo Kuma
The Olympics has historically been an event that brought the world together for a couple weeks, somewhere athletes could demonstrate their prowess and monetize-it all by appearing on cereal boxes of Wheaties. Of course much has changed in recent years, at least in our United States. For example we men should no longer oogle attractive female athletes, though I rebel and openly admit to lusting for Alica Schmidt, a tall, sleek blonde track star from Germany. But I digress.
Hypothetically, a city is chosen by the I.O.C. to host Olympic games by being sold a bill of goods. If that city will construct an Olympic Village and places to hold whatever wacko events on the Olympic schedule-- break dancing is debuting in 2024-- that city will receive a return on its investment many times over. Of course that's hydrogenated hogwash; just ask Montreal. Nevertheless, each four years a city and country search throughout the land for a preeminent architect to design venues in which athletes will heave javelins, long jump and run like the wind. This year Japanese architect Kengo Kuma was deemed the best, brightest and most visionary by the same nation and city that has produced the Walkman and Godzilla.
Kengo Kuma is a formidable intellectual who seeks to merge architectural engineering with art in a symbiosis "to send a very powerful message to the world." His finished products aren't for everyone. Kuma's "Sunny Hills" inspired by a Bamboo joint system, looks like a hodge-podge pile of twigs. But the good people of Tokyo undoubtedly reasoned that any architect they hired could design an ergonomically acceptable stadium, a structure that's presumably been in its present basic form since 776 BC. If Kengo Kuma needed additional clues, he could have flown to Rome to see one built around 70 AD.
Lastly, Kengo Kuma should have taken into account that being one with nature also means knowing what curveballs nature can throw during July and August. This is typhoon season and Tokyo is renown for insufferable summer heat. Because of either budgetary constraints or his own architectural vision he chose to ignore those facts. Consequently the stadium is not enclosed or air conditioned and forecasters say this could be the hottest Olympics on record. Athletes are said to be dropping like flies.