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Artist Anish Kapoor has given a preview of his Olympic Orbit tower sculpture, but admitted the £15 ticket price was "a hell of a lot of money". ![]() The twisting red steel tower - known as ArcelorMittal Orbit - was officially unveiled to the media on Friday. Designed by Kapoor and structural designer Cecil Balmond, the Orbit is the tallest sculpture in the UK - twice the height of Nelson's Column. It will be open to visitors to the Olympic Games and Olympic Park in July. Turner Prize-winner Kapoor said he thought the sculpture was beautiful, but added: "I think it is awkward. It has its elbows sticking out. It refuses to be an emblem. It is unsettling." Visitors will be able to go up the 35-storey structure in a lift, and have the option of walking down its spiralling staircase. During the Games the ticket price will be £15 for adults and £7 for children. Kapoor said: "£15 is a hell of a lot of money, frankly. This thing has to be paid for, and there are all sorts of equations, but there's a push to keep that cost as low as possible and make it as available as possible." The £22.7m Orbit is due to become a full-time ticketed visitor attraction in Easter 2014 as part of the phased re-opening of the Olympic Park after the Games. Andrew Altman, chief executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation, which is in charge of the Park's future, said a lower pricing system for 2014 was yet to be worked out. At 114.5 metres (376ft), The Orbit gives panoramic views across London's skyline of up to 20 miles. The helter-skelter-like sculpture took 18 months to build, with 60% of its 2,000 tonnes of steel coming from recycled sources. "We wanted to make something that was kind of a deconstruction of the tower," Kapoor told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "Towers are almost always symmetrical," he continued, saying the Orbit's twisted loops were "the refusal of a singular image". The Orbit has two observation floors, a 455-step spiral staircase, a lift and restaurant. At ground level, visitors are greeted by a massive steel horn which hangs overhead. The uppermost observation floor is flanked by two concave mirrors which disorientate the visitor before they get to see the skyline beyond. Sky £15 is a bit steep really just to go up in a lift. It's no London Eye and even that's grossly over priced. |
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Yes watched it ITV London News
I will go up it, so long as its a day like today. The cost of the Metal and all I think £15 is fair, |
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I would rather use £15 to go to the dungeons. That would be more value for money.
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Why would you even want to go up in that. LOL
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Don't get me wrong, I would like to go up it, but I think £15 is a lot. If a group of 4 went that's £60 just to see the view. Rather go and stand on top of Greenwich Hill for free.
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Reasonable enough price
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There you go.
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What a hunk of junk...Looks like someone wrapped a rollercoaster round a helter skelter!
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You Cheat get the other Side Also thats only £15 will the Olympic Games are on. Last edited by arista; 11-05-2012 at 06:27 PM. |
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Apparently "it is being hailed as London's answer to the Eiffel tower". I believe it cost around 19.1M. Suppose they have to get their costs back somehow. I bet the price goes up in 2014 anyway.
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What a waste of money. |
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Funny thing is if it WAS a helter skelter I would pay that....
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Same, they need to make a practical use out of it. Like shoot fireworks from it or something or light it up every night or scrap it.
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Sort of reminds me of Anthony Gormley's Quantum Cloud that was erected for the opening of The Millennium Dome.
![]() Not sure what the final cost of that was but for nearly 10 years it was left in a wasteland where hardly anybody went past it (unless on the river). The gist of the story, not the actual structure... Last edited by Mrluvaluva; 11-05-2012 at 06:53 PM. |
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That looks like a bunch of crap thrown together. It doesn't even look safe.
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Haha thats worse! ...lol
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It is sort of cool though. From a certain angle you can see the image of man.
![]() Just in entirely the wrong place. Mind you, the dome was expected to be more of a success than it actually was. I don't know why? Well with insufficient transport links and putting it in the middle of a wasteland, it was to be expected really... Last edited by Mrluvaluva; 12-05-2012 at 12:02 AM. |
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Well, the Eiffel Tower was branded ugly when it was built, so I suppose we shouldn't write it off just yet... but this is a bit of a joke.
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