London Olympic stadium to be world's biggest flatpack?

Um, here's a thought..... is it safe? Any stadium that can be taken apart that easily is mildly suspect in my book.... but I'm sure someone has already thought about that.

These olympics are the 30th olympiad, so they say.
So, what's the point in a temporary stadium?
If it was permanent, it would be another landmark for London.

Purdey, I always thought flatpack furniture came with some extra nuts and bolts as standard.

Personally, I don't think it's a great idea being able to move it around, leaving the stadium there acts a reminder that the city has been lucky enough to hold the Olympics, leaving a dirty great big patch of mud just makes it look like the circus has left town.

Sounds good to me. If it means we don't have another Millennium Dome debacle because we can just get rid of the stadium when we're done, I'm happy.

I am have growing concerns about this story and what the future costs to us taxpayers who will foot the bill. Here are my concerns:-
1.The box that will be needed will not only be huge but will take tons and tons of cardboard to make.
2. The vehicle able to carry it to its next destination will also have to be constructed at enormous expense.
3. The road to that destination will have to be widened,bridges strengthened,trees cut down and houses removed from its path.
Eventually it must go to the highest bidder and I know of one person who is willing to bid arund £150 for the whole job lot if the government are willing to foot the costs of removal and re-erection. Tentative enquiries have been made as to this solution and the government have agreed in principle if it is kept from the public notice an announced late one friday evening in parliament when no-one is there.
P.S. Offers are on the table for the Dome. Same price and conditions

You just know they are going to get to the end of the build and have bits left over

I think it's all a piss take on Modern Designs, that blokey is blatantly gonna pop up somewhere criticising that they didn't take the stainless steel taps.

So, with a budget that goes up and up and up... and they´ll dismantle it in pieces and put it somewhere else? I want my tax back. And no, I do not want a piece of the stadium as a compensation.

I like the idea of being able to used again elsewhere... but what will be left in its place if it's dismantled? There are a lot of people being displaced for this stadium. I'd hate to see it only for a temporary structure.

'ikea loves the olympics!'