An ambitious plan promises to put the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games back on track. Literally.
The Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority is conducting the 100-day review of Olympic infrastructure. Read some of the submissions here.A multinational architecture firm has sought to get Brisbane’s stadium debate back on track with an ambitious proposal to unlock a major inner-city industrial site and turn it into the city’s own Olympic park.
“We just looked at what you could do underneath all the road networks and thought ‘that would be fun, wouldn’t it?’,” he said.with the rail crossing removal – elevated viaducts and basketball courts, play equipment and parkland underneath – it was something just to provoke a thought.” “Such as what you see in Sydney with the indoor arena next to the Olympic Stadium out at Homebush, or Rod Laver Arena next to the MCG in Melbourne.”A new Breakfast Creek train station would be built, connecting with both existing and future Cross River Rail lines, and would include a bridge over the creek for access to Albion.
Such a move would be costly, logistically challenging and possibly unrealistic given the timeframes. After all, what started as an 11-year lead-in to the 2032 Games is now just 7½ years.But what about building above the operational stabling yards, as New York did for its $US25 billion Hudson Yards development?C. Taylor Crothers/Getty Images
Allan cited the original plans for the Brisbane Arena, which would have been built above the rail lines at Roma Street. Last year’s Quirk review found an arena at that site, budgeted at $2.5 billion, would likely cost in excess of $4 billion.“To put a proper full-size stadium would be, I’d say, two or three times bigger than that,” Allan said.
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