Complex wave design will raise roof at London 2012

摘要

Stories about building for the 2012 Olympics usually revolve around costs: budgets busted, millions redirected from worthier causes, taxpayers and Londoners shouldering the burden. The oft-quoted one about the Aquatics Centre goes like this: the budget started off at £75m - and now it's £303m.rnA visit to the Olympics Park now, as it begins to take shape, would surely enthuse the most cynical of old moaners. The sight of the Aquatics Centre, rising up out of what was an ageing hotch-potch of industrial units, is impressive, even uplifting. It reminds us that there is cause for celebration: we are hosting the Olympic Games. Here. In three years time.