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Old April 26th, 2012, 12:23 PM   #11
Rev Stickleback
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The Birds Nest was an anachronism - the last of the great Olympic follies; a white elephant. The current and future buzzwords of Olympic architecture are "sustainability" and "legacy".
Bearing in mind much of the stadium needs to be rebuilt to make it suitable for West Ham to move in, the legacy of the stadium isn't that great.

Is "being easy to knock down/rebuild" such a great selling point?
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