London’s Olympic Stadium will seat around 80,000 people, but what makes the stadium unique is that it is being constructed with special flatpack materials which means that it can be easily taken down and moved to another place after the games.

Gizmodo shares some details about the stadium.

The stadium is to have a permanent 25,000 seat main structure, but for the Olympics they’ll also install a 55,000 seat upper tier. When the games are over, it can be (relatively) easily taken down and, if needed, shipped to another Olympic city for the next games. In fact, London is currently talking to Chicago, a possible host of the 2016 games, about sending the stadium their way.

However, the idea of having a megastadium in different cities appears to be rather interesting.

One could imagine a movable set of stadiums, moving from city to city and being set up for each games. It’s a cool idea, one that I could see grabbing hold as the real impact of having to build a megastadium every four years in a different city becomes more apparent.

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