Imagine someone gave you a sackful of money and told you to build a sports stadium. You'd definitely want it to be the best sports stadium the world. But how do you go about designing THAT? Armed with your own imagination and some smart research, find out how you can transform a fantasy design into an actual dream product. You'll apply real-world design considerations to your ideas, refining your design to make it workable and achievable as it takes shape.
| Designing the world's best sports stadium |
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| What makes the ideal sports stadium? |
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Step 1 Draw a Dream Design |
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Step 2 Make the Stadium Shimmer Like a Fish |
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Step 3 Make Sure the roof works |
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Step 4 Check the playing surface |
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Step 5 Moving People to and from the stadium |
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Step 6 Get the Shoppers underground! |
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Step 7 Provide Food and Drink |
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Step 8 Seating for Everyone |
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Step 9 Provide the stadium with power |
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Step 10 Design a team kit |
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| The best ever sports stadium? |
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| Other top sports stadiums |
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| `Work it out' answers |
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| Glossary |
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| Index |
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Armed with a MacBook Air and the miracle of the Internet, Paul lives and writes at a secret location somewhere on the west coast of Europe. You can be pretty sure that keeping his feet warm under the writing table is his one-eyed surf dog, Daisy.
As well as being a writer, Paul is a wanderer. He has lived in various countries - always in the high mountains, or somewhere near a good surfing beach. "Wherever I am, though, and whatever else I'm doing," he says, "I follow Ray Bradbury's advice: 'Write, every single day.'" Paul writes about many subjects, but his books are mostly to do with sports, the world's different peoples, places, and animals, or the weird and wonderful.
