the POLSKI blog

1 | Siegfried

December 22nd, 2011 at 12:31 pm

well, this is the thing – lot of stuff became very expensive in Poland recently :/ but country is still beautiful

2 | Ted Leja

September 18th, 2012 at 5:05 pm

When I saw that your stadium has a retractable fabric roof, it brought back bad memories of the Olympic Stadium built for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal Canada. Where yours was designed by Germans, we had the “famous” French architect, “Roger Taillbert” whose only claim to fame was a circular stadium in Pari; “The Palais des Princes” a completely uncovered stadium. That stadium in Paris has since collapsed. His design for Montreal was a Oval stadium (harder to build) with and UNPROVEN retractable roof that worked from a leaning tower built right beside the stadium. Well the stadium too much too long to build so the tower was never built for the games. Nine years later after the government examined multiple options to complete the roof, they chose to use Taillbert’s original design. Well it worked for one day properly and the roof could only be opened when the wind was very calm. What happened was sudden rain showers meant that the roof stayed open. Then the fabric started to rip because the roof only had a 15 year lifespan whether it was attached to the stadium or stored away while people decided whether to build the tower or not. So the stadium remains closed to the elements for the last 25 years.

I’m glad that you’re stadium is working just fine: German architecture.