The architectural firm Populous designed the stadium, which will seat 80,000 during the Games, to transform (via semi-deconstruction) into a building that will accommodate only 25,000. It may not look as visually striking or unique upon first glance as some of the flashier Olympic stadia of decades past–such as the eye-popping “Bird’s Nest” of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But some of the innovative ideas that Populous came up with to create a shrinkable stadium also will pay off in improved energy and material usage, when compared to previous Olympic stadia.
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