{"id":1176,"date":"2008-05-29T11:54:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/05\/how_about_a_movable_performing\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:54:42","slug":"how_about_a_movable_performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/how_about_a_movable_performing.php","title":{"rendered":"How about a movable performing arts center?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2008\/may\/27\/olympics2012.london\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"portable stadium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/stadium.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"246\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><i>The Guardian<\/i> reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2008\/may\/27\/olympics2012.london\">an emerging scheme<\/a> to make London&#8217;s stadium for the 2012 Olympic games a portable affair. Post-Olympics, they would deconstruct it, and send it to the <i>next<\/i> Olympic city host (perhaps Chicago). Reduce, reuse, recycle, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The innovation is driven by the staggering costs of hosting the Olympics &#8212; particularly in capital investment &#8212; and the temporary community need for a venue of such proportions. The two cities would share the costs, and both would get a stadium of sufficient size for the big event (I suppose the <i>second<\/i> city could then put the venue on eBay or CraigsList).<\/p>\n<p>While the technology and design seem radically new, the concept is <i>at least<\/i> as old as the traveling circus. They called it the &#8221;Big Top Tent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports on an emerging scheme to make London&#8217;s stadium for the 2012 Olympic games a portable affair. Post-Olympics, they would deconstruct it, and send it to the next Olympic city host (perhaps Chicago). Reduce, reuse, recycle, indeed. The innovation is driven by the staggering costs of hosting the Olympics &#8212; particularly in capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}