One of the most eagerly awaited by many audiences from around the world some
time ago might be "The London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony",
which took place at 9 pm London time (4 pm ET) on Friday, July 27. This
has always been an interesting thing to watch every four year. Besides the
art show itself, which was directed by Danny Boyle, one thing that catched
people's attention that night was the Olympic Cauldron used. Each host country
is always prepared interesting and different cauldron to always give the good impression,
even to its ignition procession. At the beginning, it seems there is nothing
special about the cauldron used, even less likely to have a shape like a torch.
Thought was instantly changed when one by one "petal copper" lit and
long pipes began to move automatically, very beautiful indeed for a cauldron
ignition procession.
The cauldron was designed by Thomas Heatherwick. Featuring 204 copper
petals, each representing one of the competing nations which were brought to
the stadium by each team as part of the athletes’ procession, the petals were
then attached to long pipes in a ring at the centre of the arena. In the climax of the ceremony the
individual flames spread between the petals, converging on the cauldron to
create one giant flame.
The cauldron was developed at the Heatherwick Studio in Kings Cross,
London, which Heatherwick founded in 1994 with the aim of “bringing
architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice.
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