Magma Architecture's Olympic shooting venue opens
Temporary structure will also be used for Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games
Berlin-based Magma Architecture’s Olympic shooting venue in Woolwich, south-east London, has completed.
The venue, at the Royal Artillery Barracks, has hosted a series of test events ahead of it featuring Olympic shooting, Paralympic shooting and Paralympic archery across its indoor and open-air ranges this summer.
The three indoor ranges sit inside PVC tents featuring extruded circular ventilation shafts in pink, blue and red.
The temporary venues will be dismantled once the 2012 games are finished and will be used for Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Readers' comments (11)
It's another cheap temporary box.
I think "cheap" and "temporary" were the first two lines of the brief. Given that, it looks like a very elegant solution.
Why is it costing £9 billion?
Quirky design, but it hardly breaks the mould.
nice
looks lust like the concept images, well done.
Considering it is temporary I think this is a rurally funky solution
Love this. It's honest. It's exposes the ventilation shafts and makes a feature of them and celebrates the fact that it's temporary .
I don't think Magma's budget for this was £9billion!
This is better than the Acquatics Centre. More lightweight, free of bombast and posing, and certainly cheaper.
How is ptfe enviromentally friendly?