Olympic Stadium nominated for top awards in the UK architecture.
London Olympic Stadium has been nominated for the 2012 Stirling Prize, Award for Architecture in Britain, the Royal Institute of British Architects, said Sunday.
The 80,000-seat stadium in Stratford, East London, which is the opening ceremony of the Games on Friday host, was one of six buildings for the annual award is selected.
The point of maximum competition, the 486 million pounds (760 million € 625 million) costs, has a simple design, in order to reduce their post-match done.
Steel and the concrete layer may be removed, leaving a vessel immersed 25,000 seats. Construction was completed on budget in March 2011. The offers are for a 99-year lease was requested.
This is the first time that architects vying for the prize populated.
Also nominated are Hepworth Wakefield Gallery Stadium in Wakefield, northern England, the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, the center of Maggie, a support center for cancer in Glasgow, New Court, a building of the Rothschild bank in London and Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, eastern England.
The Olympic Stadium is a "world-class place with a capacity of 80,000 spectators, the most important events of athletics and ceremonies, as is the case transferred to a smaller scale," said RIBA.
"The design articulates the major elements of the stadium, broken down into the main structural elements of white, black to create secondary structures and precast concrete and has a swivel seat. Distinctive and legible
"The nature of demountable structures will be carried by the simple and elegant details of his many connections and components for the expression.
"The organization is largely on the ease of movement of large numbers of people using the stadium during the games focus.
"The bowl of the stadium gives a clear and lines in a surprisingly intimate events in a city this size."
Founded in 1996, the price of £ 20,000 ($ 31,000, € 26,000). The winner will be at a meeting in Manchester, northwest England, 13, announced in October.
Bookmakers William Hill have the Hepworth Wakefield as its 1.3 favorite with foreigners in the Olympic Stadium in 01.05.
