Zaha Hadid's $483M aquatics center for the 2012 London Olympics has been open mere days, but already it's peeving the cognoscenti. The Evening Standard's architecture journalist Kieran Long, for one, thinks the temporary stands on either side of the building—for which Hadid is being widely criticized—are "cheap, tacky, and not in the spirit of the architecture of the permanent pool." [ES]
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