Comments on: Unpaving paradise – Seoul rips out a freeway to expose a river https://ounodesign.com/2011/04/12/unpaving-paradise-seoul-demolishes-freeway/ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:04:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: LB https://ounodesign.com/2011/04/12/unpaving-paradise-seoul-demolishes-freeway/#comment-1823 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:04:36 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=11693#comment-1823 In reply to iinekore.

@iinekore I’m being overly hopeful and somewhat facetious. Our stadium won’t be torn down for ages. Stadiums and arenas downtown are such a bad idea, but ours is here to stay – it just got (in an extremely corrupt manner) the most expensive retractable roof in the world, costing $0.6 billion Canadian. The previous roof was inflatable and had airlock doors that slowed the flow of people in and out. Our gambling-addicted provincial government, in league with a Vegas casino company, wanted to attach a mega-casino to the stadium, and they wanted to get rid of the airlock doors so that nothing would impede the flow of sports spectators into the casino after a game. And this is for a casino that had not yet been approved by City Hall! So the taxpayers of BC, already in massive Olympic debt, now have to pay 600 million dollars for a hideous stadium roof we didn’t want (looks like a dead cockroach on its back, legs in the air). And the expanded casino will not receive approval and will never be built. It’s one of the worst, most corrupt boondoggles in Vancouver history–and that’s saying something.

]]> By: iinekore https://ounodesign.com/2011/04/12/unpaving-paradise-seoul-demolishes-freeway/#comment-1822 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:22:55 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=11693#comment-1822 i love this river in seoul, only spent a short time there, but much of it was spent wandering along here. classic example of how a river breathes life through a city – couples, oldies, parents and kids, school children all walking/talking/enjoying beside the river. like the kamogawa in kyoto. so great to hear that it won out over the freeway. i hope vancouver can rid itself of stadium one day. melbourne has waaaay too many sporting ‘arenas’,

]]> By: hena tayeb https://ounodesign.com/2011/04/12/unpaving-paradise-seoul-demolishes-freeway/#comment-1821 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:50:21 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=11693#comment-1821 oh wow.. that is just amazing

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