An adjacent six-story structure called the Podium Building houses shops, restaurants, an art exhibition space, and a 395-seat concert hall.
The corporate money raised by the host committee pays for erecting the podium, building the skyboxes and media centers, renting the arena and putting up all the internal decorations, including the balloon drop.
In the most prominent version, directly behind the podium, the building had been colored Communist red.
The flag should never be used as a cloth to cover tables, lecterns, podiums or buildings, or be draped from railings.
After Wade and James left the podium, after the building had emptied of every elated fan, a ball could still be heard bouncing inside the arena.
He landed on the roof of a ninth-floor podium of the building at 25 Bank Street and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Using the MM5/CALMET model simulated wind data of Hong Kong, the FAD map of three urban zones are calculated: podium (0 15 m), building (15 60 m), and urban canopy (0 60 m).
The podium of the building is clad with stone to complement the surrounding street frontages, and the foyer is decorated with murals by artist Brian McKay on of aluminium wall panels.
In addition to building podiums, lights, monitors and background scenery, the company also gets unusual requests for props, including a 62-foot-tall tree sculpture of steel and foam for a Miranda Lambert performance at last year's Grammys.
Finally, 40 linking viscous fluid dampers with maximum capacity of 600 kN for each damper were selected to connect the podium structure to the main building, and the construction of the building was completed already and put into use in the year of 2005.
Superblocks — big, open expanses of concrete that served as podiums for modern buildings — were much more appealing.
