Blowing up the stadium and trucking away the concrete and steel isn't an option, he said. We would have to take a lot of precautions," he said, explaining that it would need to be taken down "block by block" given the nature of the structure, the nearby buildings and two Metro stations. It's also part of a larger set of attractions in the area, he said, including the Biodome, Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium and Saputo stadium. If Montreal succeeds in getting a team, he added, they will need a place to play while the new stadium is built.
And once that happens, they will need a place with to play in the colder weather, if the team were ever to make the playoffs. If the stadium is going to endure, it should at least be made more usable, said Avi Friedman, an architect and McGill University professor. He acknowledged the stadium has earned an iconic place in the city's skyline, but the functionality of the actual building needs to be improved. Places that only become a symbol because of their shape and form are of no use," he said.
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A post shared by Younes Heikel Canada yheikel. A program of daily talks with on-site labor representatives was initiated and the seven-day work week was cut to six. The harassment of workers by local police who had been empowered to make random identity checks to weed out suspected troublemakers was brought under control.
Goldbloom and his associates labored hard to make collaborators out of former adversaries. Even if all goes well on the labor front, however, many shortcuts are going to have to be taken in order to reach the goal in time. There will be a considerably larger percentage of temporary seating than was originally intended in the stadium and in the swim hall.
There will be portable temporary toilets and washroom facilities in many parts of the stadium. There will be temporary electricity and temporary telephones and the offices of officials that were planned for the levels below the grandstands will instead be located outside the stadium in prefabricated temporary buildings. The press center, originally designed for the main stadium, has been transferred to a downtown office building miles away. Construction on the swimming hall, the cause of great concern for months, is finally moving forward, and the engineering staff has collectively exhaled at last.
The hall is located in the foundation of the now truncated mast, and all the technical problems of anchoring that gigantic tilted tower had to be solved before construction could begin on the arched roof of the hall and the pools.
The forest of scaffolding that supported the precast concrete forms of the roof as they were set in place is now being removed, and the meter competition pool and the diving well are being excavated. A second meter training pool is another last-minute scratch. Practices of obfuscation and indirection maintained over a period of years had gradually driven the Montreal press into a siege mentality that was not easily dislodged. Goldbloom's promises of frankness and regularly scheduled monthly tours of the construction site were reassuring, but problems continued to plague the Games, and each time a new one surfaced the Montreal papers leaped on it and wrestled it to the ground.
Some problems were real, some were rumors, almost all were surmountable. The esplanade hosts First Fridays on the first Friday of each month from June to October, where 50 food trucks arrive and attract 15, street food enthusiasts.
There are plenty of bands and other entertainment at First Fridays. The velodrome was also built close to the tower for the Olympics to host bicycle races and judo. Since then, it has been converted to a biodome that visitors can wander through that depicts four different ecosystems found in North America. The city of Montreal had proposed a huge renovation of the biodome to start this year, but construction is on hold and the venue closed because Montreal is afflicted with a severe shortage of qualified labourers.
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