Watercube or Wastecube?

Billy · 12-13-2004, 09:09 AM

Chinese media are drastically discussing if we need Olympic Watercube. Some people think the project is too expensive. Beijing need a long time to pay for it after Olympic game. Others believe that it is a nice design and would be a landmark in Beijing. The Beijing Olympic Committee decide to cut the cost by decrease the buliding height. If so, I don't know what it would be, Watercube or Wastecube? Any landmark is debated before it was built.

SteveDallas · 12-13-2004, 10:28 AM

Umm. what is it? A work of art? Or will there be some kind of olympic event in it?

Roosta · 12-13-2004, 11:48 AM

If they built it in England, it would be a huge drinking fountain with only one tap, no transport infrastructure to get people to it, it would cost £50 just to look at it and any MPs that had a say in it's design/construction would retire off the back-handers for the contractors. Then, after 6 months of arguing over the over-budget cost of it, they'd knock it down and build another millennium dome in it's place.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-13-2004, 05:25 PM

Wow, that's prettuy cool, Billy. Now the final selection is between an Aussie, American and Chinese Companies. That'll be interesting.

Roosta, chill. You're too young to be so cynical.

wolf · 12-14-2004, 12:37 AM

If they do it, I think it will look very impressive. Some of the design, however, seems to rely on technologies not yet fully formed ... which is probably not the best way to approach something that involves complex engineering.

cowhead · 01-08-2005, 11:30 PM

wow.. that's really cool. I like it. can I get one for my yard?

really though, the whole olympic spending that goes along with the games I have usually found to be more wasteful than not ( I was living close to atlanta in '96) and for the most part everything they built was.. well as I said a waste, sure it made atlanta look cool in the eyes of the world... other than that it was a tremendous waste of taxpayer money.. .now the hookers for trying to get the winter olympics in salt lake.. now THAT was a stroke of genius!

12-13-2004, 09:09 AM	#1
Billy Professor Join Date: May 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 1,462	Watercube or Wastecube? Chinese media are drastically discussing if we need Olympic Watercube. Some people think the project is too expensive. Beijing need a long time to pay for it after Olympic game. Others believe that it is a nice design and would be a landmark in Beijing. The Beijing Olympic Committee decide to cut the cost by decrease the buliding height. If so, I don't know what it would be, Watercube or Wastecube? Any landmark is debated before it was built. Attached Images

12-13-2004, 11:48 AM	#3
Roosta Nutter. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: England Posts: 221	If they built it in England, it would be a huge drinking fountain with only one tap, no transport infrastructure to get people to it, it would cost £50 just to look at it and any MPs that had a say in it's design/construction would retire off the back-handers for the contractors. Then, after 6 months of arguing over the over-budget cost of it, they'd knock it down and build another millennium dome in it's place. __________________ Back from the brink...

12-13-2004, 05:25 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Wow, that's prettuy cool, Billy. Now the final selection is between an Aussie, American and Chinese Companies. That'll be interesting. Roosta, chill. You're too young to be so cynical. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-14-2004, 12:37 AM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	If they do it, I think it will look very impressive. Some of the design, however, seems to rely on technologies not yet fully formed ... which is probably not the best way to approach something that involves complex engineering. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-08-2005, 11:30 PM	#6
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	wow.. that's really cool. I like it. can I get one for my yard? really though, the whole olympic spending that goes along with the games I have usually found to be more wasteful than not ( I was living close to atlanta in '96) and for the most part everything they built was.. well as I said a waste, sure it made atlanta look cool in the eyes of the world... other than that it was a tremendous waste of taxpayer money.. .now the hookers for trying to get the winter olympics in salt lake.. now THAT was a stroke of genius! __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

12-13-2004, 10:28 AM	#2
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Umm. what is it? A work of art? Or will there be some kind of olympic event in it?

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