Friday Special Feature
Special 2010 Olympic Feature
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"Pacific Coliseum (100 North Renfrew Street) is an indoor arena at Hastings Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. Completed in 1968 at the site of the Pacific National Exhibition, the arena currently holds 16,281 for ice hockey, though capacity at its opening was 15,713.
"The Coliseum is currently the home of the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League. The arena also hosts a variety of events and concerts. It has also been chosen as the venue for figure skating and short track speed skating in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
"Other hockey tenants of the Pacific Coliseum have been the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL from 1970-1995 and the WHL from 1968 to 1970, the Vancouver Blazers of the WHA from 1973-1975 and the Vancouver Voodoo of the RHI from 1994-1995."
Designed by W. K. Noppe in 1966–67, with its simple geometric shape and distinctive ring of white panels, the building can be classified as formalist architecture. " Wikipedia. Construction of the original building cost $6 million. Renovations for the 2010 Olympics cost $20.4 million. The money for the renovations was provided by the Canadian and British Columbia governments.
The green and blue colors for the over 6,000 banners in Vancouver were chosen by VANOC. They were created to represent the look of Vancouver. And VANOC was right since there has been not a single snow fall in the city of Vancouver this year. The grass is bright green and the forsythia, crocuses, and even an occasional daffodil are dotting the gardens. Half of the cost of the banners was in their creation, the other half in mounting them on light posts and buildings. The large banner covering the north side of the Coliseum depicts a figure skater and speed skaters,both of which will be competing at this Olympic venue.
Photo: Taken January 2010 by SW.
Designed by W. K. Noppe in 1966–67, with its simple geometric shape and distinctive ring of white panels, the building can be classified as formalist architecture. " Wikipedia. Construction of the original building cost $6 million. Renovations for the 2010 Olympics cost $20.4 million. The money for the renovations was provided by the Canadian and British Columbia governments.
The green and blue colors for the over 6,000 banners in Vancouver were chosen by VANOC. They were created to represent the look of Vancouver. And VANOC was right since there has been not a single snow fall in the city of Vancouver this year. The grass is bright green and the forsythia, crocuses, and even an occasional daffodil are dotting the gardens. Half of the cost of the banners was in their creation, the other half in mounting them on light posts and buildings. The large banner covering the north side of the Coliseum depicts a figure skater and speed skaters,both of which will be competing at this Olympic venue.
Photo: Taken January 2010 by SW.
