Hundreds of millions more are expected to watch on television around the world, and dozens of temporary studios, filled with presenters speaking dozens of languages, have been built against the backdrop of a floodlit Buckingham Palace.
Two floors down from Mr. Aoki is South Side Design and Building, a 12-year-old company with 6 to 10 employees that builds display cases, pedestals and other fixtures for almost 50 medium-sized museums, like the Asia Society and the Jewish Museum; it even built the rostrum and backdrop for the commencement speech that President Obama gave in May at Barnard College.
The Berlin tech community is fueled by talented folks from around the world coming together to build companies, to the backdrop of an urban canvas.
The building sits low on the horizon, between a car-parts warehouse and a paper mill, looking like the kind of prefab factory they build as a backdrop on big-budget movie sets.
There's a scene on a raft and the (water) tank was built too close to the backdrop and the backdrop had a seam down the middle.
Mr. Warner built a backdrop for some of the photographs by piling rough-sawed timbers into what he terms a Jenga stack — a room-within-a-room that Ms. Baumann, who has a knack for branding, calls the Little House.
When the city was first built, its mountainous backdrop provided natural protection against attack by the enemies of the then colonial ruler, Spain.
For the better part of half a century after World War II, democratic capitalism built its modern framework against the backdrop of its death match with totalitarian Communism.
The £28m venue, built against a backdrop of council cuts, will host high-level cycling events, basketball and volleyball games and double as a concert venue.
Situated in a distant corner of the gardens, they were built mainly as backdrops to the hydraulic fountains that delighted the Qianlong emperor.
