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Here's a page with good color photos of the stadium with roof from various angles...
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Olympic_Arena when someone actually gets paid for something like that
http://www.hohpe.com/Gregor/Travel/2002/Seattle/emp.jpg I'm reminded of the Bloom County strip where an idea for a protective shield is built around the Earth using 40 billion dollar bills laid end to end is pitched to Congressmen, and a head line caption reads: They Bought It! Wrong area on the map, it's a bit under than the stadium, right under Yoyogi park, kick ass place to spend your sunday afternoon (various animations every weekend, lots of amateur musicians and stuff).
http://maps.google.com/maps?om=1&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=35.667661,139.701161&spn=0.006494,0.010042&t=k My camera was out of battery when we got to it though... =( ah, that explains it... but considering how many photos of an open-air stadium when searching for "olympic stadium tokyo" i wonder... what is that other stadium that everyone seems to think is the olympic stadium?
Wikipedia's page is completely off the mark in this case, it seems. it's the Yoyogi National Gymnasium it seems, it was also built for the Olympics, so not surprising it can be confused.
Wikipedia has it right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyogi_National_Gymnasium Would that be "Contemporary Japanese Architecture", by Botond Bognar (one of the coolest names evar), by chance? If so urok 'cause I got the same one =D
actually it's "Annotated Architecture" by Neil Stevenson (no, not the Snow Crash guy, that's Stephenson.)
And apparently Neil didn't do his research, becuase as Bal says, it's actually called Yoyogi National Gymnasium or something like that. http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Miniature-Park-20070121
It's a lot of buildings we've seen before, but the pictures show a good aerial view and there is a nice variety of architectural styles. (3 pages of images) There's something like that not far from where I live, it's only silly french buildings though... =(
It's a shame they don't have the names of the buildings, some of those are nice and I'd be interested into looking into them a bit more. in case you were interested in that one and didn't know the name, it's Neuschwanstein. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein
I'd like to know these: 1* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_015.jpg 2* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_027.jpg (reminds me of a painkiller level) 3* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_040.jpg 4* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_042.jpg 5* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_077.jpg 6* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_078.jpg Anyone know those? fairly certain that's the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
Don't know about the rest though... #2 is the Sultan Ahmed Mosque or "Blue Mosque" in Turkey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Ahmed_Mosque #1 Castle Chenonceau at the river Loire (France)
http://www.chenonceau.com/media/fr/index_fr.php #3 Einstein Tower, Potsdam (near Berlin, Germany) http://www.aip.de/einsteinturm/ #4 looks like a building in Sanaa, the Capital of Jemen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana'a - the other ? #4 is not in Sanaa, it is in the
Wadi Dhar in Yemen and it is named Dar al-Hajar (the Rock Palace) http://www.flat3.co.uk/yemen/pages/index_wadi_dhar.htm http://www.pervan.de/reiseberichte/Bild*Dar_al_Hadschar*34099 scroll down at this site, there you can start a slideshow, with very impressive images of Yemen! nobody laughing, everyone on drugs, but nice architecture.
~~~~ found #6 Laxey Wheel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxey_Wheel http://www.geschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/fach/wiso/main.htm The time is here. The place is now. The journey, every episode of the twilight zone ever.
http://www.yourtvlinks.com/the-twilight-zone.html
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