These sketches are from our archives and document our process as designers and architects with a unique specialty in live events. Populous provided the overlay design for all of the competition sites for the Games, which included over 30 venues.
Late founder Jerry Anderson directed a design team of over 80 event professionals. The work included all aspects of temporary facility design, temporary commodities planning, operations design, signage planning and implementation, and Games site management.
This also covered integrated scheduling and budget management. The processes and design concepts developed by this team served as the foundation for future Games planning and design of many subsequent Olympic Games. From the design of the largest Olympic Stadium in history to on-site management, Populous played a major role in the successful staging of the Olympic Summer Games.
Team members established and answered the needs for 30 functional areas, providing turnkey management for each, from document preparation to fit-out. They also prepared documents for temporary adjustments to Sydney Olympic Stadium. Populous was responsible for the initial master planning for the venues and general oversight coordination for strategies involving programming, design, procurement, construction and operations.
To accommodate the Olympics, the design solution was to include temporary north and south stands to host , during the Olympic Games. Post-Games, the removal of the upper end tiers reduced the stadium to 85, for its long-term use.
Populous was involved with the London Olympics and Paralympics from the early stages of the bid authoring the Olympic Venue Master Plan with over 35 competition and several non-competition venues. Russia has been a source of controversy once again for some of the strict policies and the dominant reign of president Vladimir Putin. By erecting this stadium and pouring tons of funds into the Winter Olympics, Sochi has a chance to establish Russia as a legitimate hosting country for major sporting events in the future.
It also helps that many events will make their inaugural appearances in the Winter Games and that all the arenas where competitions will be held are close together in the quaint layout, per Sochi 's official Twitter account:.
Sergey Butov is the editor-in-chief of Sport-Express, a Russian newspaper, and he is one of the torchbearers. He visited the site and captured an inside look as final preparations were being made on Wednesday, Jan. Notice the elegant roof, which is a "translucent polycarbonate" design meant to reflect the aesthetically pleasing landscape that surrounds the stadium, per Sochi Search Archinect.
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