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Hand it over

By 6000 | 6000 | December 14, 2009

Despite the doubters, the legal challenges, the alleged shortages of concrete, labour, electricity and armadillos and the political infighting, the Cape Town Stadium is to be handed over to the City today. On schedule. Compare that with the magnificent Wembley Stadium in London which came in over a year late and you can see that this “third world [...]

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A Shocking Discovery

By 6000 | 6000 | November 12, 2009

As each new batch of Bruce Sutherland’s superb work is released onto the web on the City of Cape Town’s 2010 Gallery page, the images circulate around Cape Town and the broader environment by email and make their way onto blogs, usually without any credit for the photographer. But that’s not all. In addition, there [...]

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Light up, light up!

By 6000 | 6000 | October 23, 2009

(As Snow Patrol once told us.) They were testing the lights at the Green Point Cape Town Stadium last night. Flickr user donaldza was there to catch it. Thanks, donaldza. Bigger version here. Truly magnificent. EDIT: Just been sent these by email. Arguably even more magnificenterer. (That may not actually be a word.) Bigger versions [...]

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Just another Stadium pic

By 6000 | 6000 | October 7, 2009

Since I was passing the Cape Town Stadium and - for once on this rather gloomy Cape Town day - it wasn’t raining, I decided to snap a couple of pictures to track the progress on this architectural masterpiece, which doesn’t look anything like a Polo mint. Although all the tower cranes have now come down, there’s [...]

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Last crane

By 6000 | 6000 | September 30, 2009

In a symbolic moment, the last tower crane at Cape Town’s Cape Town Stadium in Green Point was dismantled yesterday. The plethora of tower cranes have become a feature on the Green Point skyline over the last couple of years. The handover date for the stadium is just 10 weeks, and while there’s still work [...]

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