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Old Posted Oct 23, 2009, 7:56 PM
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Arrow Olympic Cauldron Discussion

We all know there will be two cauldrons. One inside BC Place and another outside for everyone to see.


From GBids: It appears that the outdoor cauldron is slated for CANADA PLACE. Watch the news report video on the cauldron below, the construction worker at Canada Place is a terrible liar:

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/inde...2-23252ff58ece
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 23, 2009, 7:59 PM
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Makes sense given the media being housed next door.
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Access to the area around Canada Place will be highly restricted come Games time.. not able to view the video at the moment, however. The media would get access to the outdoor cauldron, but not really very many others, given how tight the corridor is through that area. I think it'd be really impressive if they were able to put it on the water somehow.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 23, 2009, 11:43 PM
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Canada Place would be awesome. I also like the idea of BC Place itself being the Cauldron with flames around the ring. Can't imagine that would happen though, sounds like a recipe for another roof disaster. lol. How about we light the top of Grouse Mountain on fire? I bet NBC would go for that.
     
     
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Eh, we're replacing the roof anyway.. let the mother burn!
     
     
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Old Posted Jan 14, 2010, 1:12 AM
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Credible sources: the outdoor Olympic cauldron is located at Jack Poole Plaza at the convention centre. It's currently being built:
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yay so noone can see it since its in the red zone which is off limits to the general public

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Well, you can walk up to that fence where that photo was taken so I wouldn't exactly call it hidden from public viewing. I imagine the scaffolding will be removed from around it too .

Not to mention the views one will have from downtown (looking down Burrard), from the North shore, or from along the seawall at coal harbour and across at stanley park, which are open to the public.

One does not have to touch the torch to know it's there . Most of them have been on top of stadiums in past Games. . . does that mean they were inaccessible to the public as well?
     
     
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I'll be volunteering there starting this weekend - I'll try and take some pictures in the coming weeks.
     
     
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Old Posted Jan 14, 2010, 2:56 AM
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Soooo LLLLAAAAAMMMMMEEEE

This is the most boring and uncreative thing they could have possible done. The spot almost sucks as much as that little candle stick they have holding the flame. I pray to god there is more to it then a whole in the ground and a stick
     
     
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Well, you can walk up to that fence where that photo was taken so I wouldn't exactly call it hidden from public viewing. I imagine the scaffolding will be removed from around it too .

Not to mention the views one will have from downtown (looking down Burrard), from the North shore, or from along the seawall at coal harbour and across at stanley park, which are open to the public.

One does not have to touch the torch to know it's there . Most of them have been on top of stadiums in past Games. . . does that mean they were inaccessible to the public as well?
if u can get near the fence its in the red zone just to get in there is impossible
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It could be really a work of art, who knows. I am just disappointed that the Lion's Gate Bridge doesn't have the Olympic Rings. There are a few building wraps so far but nothing like Salt Lake City. Sigh. Still hoping for some sub zero weather in the city with wimpy snow in the city that melts as it falls and a dump of snow in the mountains. Join me in my delusion.
     
     
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it will all be okay once the cherrios wrap goes up
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it will all be okay once the cherrios wrap goes up
I have never laughed so hard in my life.
     
     
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The absence of wraps is disappointing - I guess the recession hit hard on the advertising budgets.
I'll guess that if Vanoc hadn't curtailed spending, there would be "look of the Games" wraps on serveral towers.
     
     
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has anyone seen the GE Station? they have all the ad space at Vancouver city centre - they look cool
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Mr. X, I took that photo.

Here is the original I posted in the Vancouver Convention Centre thread:

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I took some camera phone shots of the Convention Centre precinct today.

The source of the the photo that you posted today, Febrary 13th, and labeled "by moi" was "http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4958/img00381201001121307.jpg"
Thread link: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=1#post4649367

The source photo I posted yesterday, February 12th, was "http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4958/img00381201001121307.jpg"
Thread link: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1383

The original photo I took on my Blackberry was: IMG00381-20100112-1307.jpg
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i thought that picture looked familiar...
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Old Posted Jan 14, 2010, 8:55 AM
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At the 9th floor of the Shaw tower there is a cafeteria and patio. I was out there today, which is directly across the street from the Plaza. there were so many tarps and things in the way that all I could see was the top of it.
     
     
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Mr. X, I took that photo.

Here is the original I posted in the Vancouver Convention Centre thread:



The source of the the photo that you posted today, Febrary 13th, and labeled "by moi" was "http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4958/img00381201001121307.jpg"
Thread link: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=1#post4649367

The source photo I posted yesterday, February 12th, was "http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4958/img00381201001121307.jpg"
Thread link: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1383

The original photo I took on my Blackberry was: IMG00381-20100112-1307.jpg

Just to let you know, although I hope/think you already know it, Mr.X sent your pictures (about the cauldron outside) also to Gamesbids forum. At first I thought they were his pictures. Now I know they weren't.

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