Olympic Tower sculpture unveiled Lun

Anish - Kapoor both the Guildhall in London for the opening of the London Olympic tower sculpture "model. This means that in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, a landmark tower building will greet visitors from all over the world. "Olympic Tower" by a series of intricate steel spiral structure, will be the largest public works of art in the history of London.
Major British media, however, invariably the first time on the design and survey, such a move is very rare, but also from one side Minka Poole designed from the start that triggered a huge controversy. The survey results also proved this point.
Daily Mail online survey entitled: "How do you look at the the Kapoor cost of 19 million pounds in London 'Olympic Tower sculpture'?" Readers have two choices, "like" or "do not like". As a result, to the evening of April 2, the answer "do not like" the number of people accounted for 86%!
"The Guardian" almost at the same time introduced a similar survey, a questionnaire on the topic: "Do you think that the Kapoor design 'Olympic Tower' is a great design it?" Readers the same two options "Yes, it is a great design "or" No, it is a pile of garbage. " Results to the evening of April 2 that "it is a bunch of garbage," the reader the proportion of up to 61.2%!
People will ask: how London? Why are they so unhappy with the design of the Kapoor? The "Olympic Tower" design guru Kapoor par with the Eiffel Tower sculpture, the problem is that these two buildings really comparable?
Hookah is higher than the buddha statue of Liberty "
Mayor of London - Boris Johnson rebellious, famous for sloppy dressed in scruffy suit, two years ago to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games initiator thundering criticized what he. So, when the artist Anish Kapoor won the Turner Prize, both for "Olympic Tower" unveiled, people generally believe that this design is really weird, but it should be very similar to Johnson's mind.
Johnson even prepare an appropriate name granite sculpture for this will decorate the new building of the British capital horizon. He simply called "London" Olympic Tower "shape like an Arab Hookah Hookah. However, this is not an ordinary "Hookah", but need to spend lots of money to build the "Hookah" - cost close to 20 million pounds.
The Hookah is expected to commence within granite sculpture a few weeks, its official name to the "track Arcelor Mittal (Arcelor Mittal Orbit). As can be seen from the model Kapoor "Hookah is an asymmetrical tower building height will reach 377 feet (about 115 meters), even higher than New York's Statue of Liberty like. This tower will be built 193 feet (about 58 meters) high near the Olympic Stadium, built an observation deck and an outdoor sidewalk. The denta after overlooking the Olympic Park, can accommodate about 700 visitors per hour.
Designers and funders are of Indian origin.
Kapoor's design is successful beat other competitors. The model unveiling ceremony held on March 31, able to get the construction of building such an opportunity comparable to the one with the Eiffel Tower in Paris is the capital city of London, he is excited little shiver Kapoor, 56-year-old said: "Eiffel depleted lifetime effort to design this tower, with his high is a very arrogant thing we have to do is to do the best possible. "the artist himself has admitted, this crimson spiral structure seem weird, giving a feeling soon collapsed. Of course, the designer has completed complex mechanical operations, it can not be easily collapsed.
Hookah construction in the Arup Vice President Cecil Barr Mond help. In 2002, Barr Mond with Kapoor together round the engine room of the Tate Modern hall to create the red horn "Maas Elias. Currently, the first sponsor of Lakshmi Mittal has signed with Johnson the financing agreement. Indian steel magnate Mittal is the fifth richest in the world, the richest man in the United Kingdom, he is responsible for providing 16 million pounds of funding.
In the opening ceremony, London Mayor Johnson explained: the construction of the largest public works of art in British history "in the situation of the economic downturn, some people must have thought I was crazy but I am sure such a construction in the Stratford area The building is the right choice, it appears to be a major highlight of the Olympic Games. "
The Hookah need 1400 tons of steel, most of them by Mittal's company. The steel magnate said that, since 1997, he has been living in London. He hoped to send "a timeless gift for this wonderful city.
Artist Kapoor was born in India, and his mother was a Jewish immigrant from Baghdad, and his father is a waterway in the Indian Navy surveyor. Kapoor's childhood was spent in Mumbai teenager to immigrate to Israel, and college and then went to London, and since then, he never left London. So, Kapoor on London should be emotional.
In 1990, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and blockbuster, and quickly became a master of architectural design. His works are known for simple, twisted, monochrome and vivid colors, while London's "Olympic Tower" which takes these features rolled into one. Now, many cities in the world built Kapoor designs. In 2004, he Millennium Park in Chicago designed 110-ton stainless steel sculpture "Cloud Gate" completed; fall of 2006, he designed a second air mirror "installed at the Rockefeller Center in New York; he is in New York a monument to commemorate the British victims in the "9.11" design will soon be completed. There is no doubt that his controversial greatest works is London "Olympic Tower".