Ramble Meets... Tom Jones
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Tom Jones is one of the world's premier architects, and served as Lead Architect on behalf of Populous, the design firm responsible for the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as well as Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and the Olympic Stadium purpose built for the London Olympics in 2012 and currently occupied by West Ham.
In this exclusive interview, Tom chats to Luke about how it felt to be present at the London Olympics opening ceremony inside the stadium he helped build, what it takes to build a sporting arena on such a scale, how important stadia are to football teams and why, and what the future of top level stadium development looks like.
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| 0:38.2 | I'm Tom Jones, a senior principal of Populous, which is a global design company that specialises |
| 0:42.9 | in the design of sports and entertainment buildings. |
| 0:50.6 | Tom, thank you very much for coming in and spending time with us. |
| 0:53.6 | I've been very, very fascinated to have you in. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm looking forward to this for a while. |
| 0:57.4 | Why don't you start by telling us what a lead architect does when it comes to sports stadiums, |
| 1:04.4 | specifically the disperse stadium, the arstance stadium, and how you work with it on, |
| 1:07.7 | and the Olympic stadium. |
| 1:08.6 | What does that role entail? |
| 1:10.7 | Well, you can imagine projects of this scale very, very large buildings. |
| 1:14.4 | And it's impossible for one architect to be responsible for designing and developing the drawings |
| 1:19.6 | for all that building. |
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