[amor de cosmos]

should there be a thread for this? I kind of thought that as things get completed maybe pics could go here:

hopkins architects: london 2012 olympic velodrome complete
over 18 months before the start of the games, london-based hopkins architects have completed the '2012 olympic velodrome', making it the first venue to be officially handed over to the olympic delivery authority. built on the old home of the eastway cycle track, the 6,000-seat indoor facility features a distinct, double-curve roof which was the result of an focused study into the performance and efficiency of the building.

http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/erica/-----velo/velo01.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/erica/-----velo/velo02.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/erica/-----velo/add01.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/erica/-----velo/velo04.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/13356/hopkins-architects-london-2012-olympic-velodrome-complete.html

[Ch.G, Ch.G]

^ So, so beautiful.

[Aleks]

darn you cosmos! i was gonna post this! but i am in loveeee with the velodrome! such a sexy building, the quality is like nothing i've ever seen, it's just love at first sight!

here's a site (http://www.dezeen.com/2011/02/25/london-2012-velodrome-by-hopkins-architects/) with more pictures. including this one which is my favorite!
http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2011/02/dzn_London-2012-Velodrome-by-Hopkins-Architects-11.jpg

[Bedhead]

The only thing I'm not convinced about on the velodrome is the ceiling - it feels a bit bland & value engineered compared to the rest of the space - I can't help thinking they could have done something more interesting, more like the Vancouver speed skating rink, which looked amazing.

[RLS_rls]

Gorgeous building, great colour and form. The thin ribbon of glass underneath the massive roof really gives it a wide, flat feeling.

First thing I thought of when I saw this was the Calgary Saddledome.

[The North One]

Am I the only one who doesn't watch the Olympics?
who cares if somebody can run/swim faster then another person? that's so boring.

to me this is just a huge waste of time.

BTW this building looks like a giant pringles chip

[muppet]

its been nicknamed 'the Pringle' already by the British press.

[M II A II R II K]

I don't suppose that Cloud is still on the table.

[Bedhead]

No, they went with the giant hemorrhoid instead:

http://www.rockingfacts.com/images/2012%20Olympic%20tower%20showcased%20in%20London/2012%20Olympic%20tower%20showcased%20in%20London-01.jpg
Rocking Factshttp://www.rockingfacts.com/2012-olympic-tower-showcased-in-london/

[muppet]

nah, giant squid attacking a flying saucer

[HooverDam]

Wow what a gorgeous building. I love the pringle roof, it looks like the Veterans Memorial Coliseum here in Phoenix (which was built in '65):

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/687/2699484277ebdd37033.jpg

[RobH]

Should there be a thread for this? I kind of thought that as things get completed maybe pics could go here

There's the London Stadium development thread, which is full of construction photos, and isn't dedicated solely to the Olympic venues, so it's nice to have a new thread just for London 2012.


For those who don't know, London's Games is split between a large new Olympic Park in East London - most of whose venues should be completed this year - and well known venues across London like Wembley and Wimbldeon. There are also events outside of the capitial, like the football tournament which is nationwide, and the sailing events which will be on the south coast.

Here's a more full account of what you'll be seeing in just over a year....


Olympic Park: (u/c)

I posted a lot of new construction photos in the stadiums thread a week or so ago, so for those who want to see the progress of the main Olympic Park, here's that post:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=5174335&postcount=235

And a video of the completed Park (renders):

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Completed venues (or ones which just need temporary seating installed), which seems to be the main thrust of this new thread:

Lea Valley White Water Centre:

Lots of landscaping still to do and temporary seating to be installed for the Games but the centre is open:

http://www.london2012.com/images/media-manager/2010/12/white-water-centre-facility-building-71468.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01813/leevalleyGI_1813270b.jpg

http://www.london2012.com/images/media-manager/2011/2/an-artist-s-impression-of-lee-valley-white-water-centre-as-it-might-look-dur.jpg

Wimbledon:

http://sportsthenandnow.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/wimbledonb_aerial1_aeltc.jpg

Lords:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/2746024773_fcc5724624.jpg

The O2:

http://www.woollypigs.com/wp-content/uploads/O2arena.jpg

http://images.football.co.uk/Dynamic/Group/Source/56ebaf7835914f4e8ba624b3215df1f9.jpg

Eton Rowing Lake:

http://www.windsor.gov.uk/imageresizer/?image=%2Fdbimgs%2Fdorneylake_1.jpg&action=Header

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/48495000/jpg/_48495406_eton-dorney-rowing-canoe-kayak-flatwater.jpg

ExCel:

http://www.newham.com/files/p.316.img.jpg

Earls Court:

http://www.london-traveltips.com/pics/earls-court-exhibition-centre.jpg

Hampton Court Palace:

http://www.surreyproperty.com/photos2/Large/001DSC_0205.jpg

Weymouth and Portland:

http://blogs.culture.gov.uk/main/images/weymouth_aerial_blog.jpg

Woolwich Barracks:


http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/86E36296-8C56-4E0A-8386-2F556161C04F/MJ001053.jpg

Wembley Arena:

http://www.gochauffeur.co.uk/images/wembley_arena_500x375_omg.jpg

Horse Guards Parade:

http://sweffling.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/44747556_trooping6_getty466-horse-guards-parade.jpg?w=466&h=300

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/06/07/article-1024913-0185240100000578-539_468x286_popup.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/ridm/po01.jpg


Greenwich Park:

http://www.london2012.com/images/media-manager/2011/2/an-artist-s-impression-of-greenwich-park-72858.jpg

http://si.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Portfolio/greenwich-park-2/259370034_48eKY-M.jpg

Hyde Park:

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/9FEB252E-F4B7-4E98-A3FB-535CAB1A28CB/AAFB001419.jpg


Wembley Stadium:

http://www.smartcoolpicture.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Wembley-Stadium-at-night.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5131/5485841020_155088e46a_b.jpg

Old Trafford (Manchester):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/3283256164_0534231f50_o.jpg

Millennium Stadium (Cardiff):

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1027/1395976550_9607258e14_b.jpg

St James' Park (Newcastle):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2714/4404098982_2ddb7281f3_b.jpg

Hampden Park (Glasgow):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2451/4014696375_cd1f966458_o.jpg

City of Coventry Stadium:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_01/ricoh0703_600x398.jpg

http://www.london2012.com/games/venues/index.php

[bbeliko]

London is doing a fantastic job in getting ready for the Olympics, it really seems that the 2012 games will be among the best in history.

[daisyau]

London is doing a great job!! They are doing a good job. Fixing the tube to avoid any problems as overcrowded tube stations, new buildings etc. All these is given oppurtunity to people to work which is even better. I can't wait for the Olympic games is going to be one of the best event ever!

[amor de cosmos]

Construction completed at the London Olympic Stadium

Today marked the end of construction on London’s most avidly-awaited structure over the last three years – the Olympic Stadium for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Designed by Populous, the ‘centre piece’ of the Stratford site is an ellipse, measuring 315m at its longest axis and 256m at its shortest axis. The final step will be to lay the running track, put off to ensure its protection during the programme of temporary overlay work for ceremonies.

Construction on the project commenced in May 2008 and now, less than three years later, the Olympic Stadium has been completed on time, under budget and touting an exemplary safety record. A ceremonial laying of the last strip of turf was attended by Chairman of the IOC Athletes’ Commission and Olympian Frank Fredericks, Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) Chairman John Armitt, London 2012 Chair Sebastian Coe and 400m hurdles Olympic medallist Tasha Danvers. Local schoolchildren also turned out to watch the completion of this important project.
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=16228

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/16228_5_ODA3.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/16228_2_olympic2.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/16228_3_ODA1.jpg

[The North One]

No, they went with the giant hemorrhoid instead:

http://www.rockingfacts.com/images/2012%20Olympic%20tower%20showcased%20in%20London/2012%20Olympic%20tower%20showcased%20in%20London-01.jpg
Rocking Factshttp://www.rockingfacts.com/2012-olympic-tower-showcased-in-london/

how does that look like a hemorrhoid?

[Bedhead]

how does that look like a hemorrhoid?

just red, bloated and veiny

[sopas ej]

Wow, so the main Olympic stadium is all finished now. I'm wondering how the Olympic cauldron will be integrated into the design of the stadium, or if it'll be a free-standing structure.

[amor de cosmos]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Stratford_Station_London_UK.jpg/800px-Stratford_Station_London_UK.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Stratford_station_02.jpg/800px-Stratford_station_02.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Stratford_North_London_line.JPG/800px-Stratford_North_London_line.JPG

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stratford_station


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[amor de cosmos]

Completed Olympic Arena Makes Case for Temporary
June 10, 2011

Temporary architecture usually incorporates some combination of mobility, lightness, and minimal mass (or even, in the age of Pritzker/ Serpentine Gallery/world expo revivals, extravagant pavilions).



A basketball arena tag-team designed by Sinclair Knight Merz together with Wilkinson Eyre and KSS has just been completed, and was one of the fastest structures to be built for the games, ready an entire year in advance. Work began in October 2009, with the 1,000-ton steel frame being completed in March of last year; the all-white cladding was installed soon after, with the interior finally furbished over the past couple of months. The stadium as such will have its fifteen minutes next summer, then be deconstructed and shipped elsewhere for use.

http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/110208_ODA_MDA_AC_089_HI.jpg

http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_1414_HI.jpg

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/22410/completed-olympic-arena-makes-case-for-temporary/

[ywkim3]

http://www.khl.com/servlet/file/62955_218_preview.jpg?ITEM_ENT_ID=62955&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=32&FILE_SERVICE_CONF_ID=218

http://www.insidethegames.biz/images/stories/Olympic_Stadium_with_turf_picture_by_Popolus.jpg

http://media.lehighvalleylive.com/sports_impact/photo/olympic-stadium-b81494fa2c955248.jpg


if you want to see more pictures of London Olympic stadium including World major stadiums , Please visit below URL.

http://cafe.daum.net/stade/5Ay7/721?docid=1DZEG|5Ay7|721|20110325134620

[jiadongpeng]

I am New Here,My name is Jesse and this is my first entry here. Since I am new to forum community and I feel I am in midst of my own learning curve. I feel sometimes, that I have to learn a lot, hope you guys have patient on me.Thank you for sharing the post.

[photoLith]

That stadium is kinda boring, the Beijing main stadium was way more kick ass than that.

[amor de cosmos]

Allies & Morrison and RPS's Olympic press centre completes
14 July 2011 | By Andrea Klettner

Five of six main venues are now built

Allies & Morrison and RPS’s London 2012 International Broadcast Centre on the Olympic Park in east London has been completed.

The 275m-long building will form a part of the main media complex, including the main press centre.

During the Olympics more than 20,000 broadcasters, print journalists and photographers will use the 24-hour media hub to send reports throughout the world.

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/pictures/800x400fitpad%5B238%5D/4/9/4/1698494_110324_ODA_MDA_AC_095_HI.JPG

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/pictures/800x400fitpad%5B238%5D/4/9/2/1698492_P1030393.jpg

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/allies-and-morrison-and-rps-olympic-press-centre-completes/5021557.article

[RobH]

That stadium is kinda boring, the Beijing main stadium was way more kick ass than that.

Think for two seconds before you post the obvious :yes:

1. This stadium was designed to be 2/3rds temporary. Everything above the first tier was deisgned to be taken down after the Games to leave a 25k seat athletics stadium. Unlike Bejing's monolith which has hosted ONE sporting event since 2008 this is a demountable stadium built with post-Games use in mind. It mightn't be as flashy but it's a much better model for future hosts than the one Beijing provided.

2. A Birds Nest would cost probably £2bn to construct in London given the relative costs of building in Britain and China. Perhaps you could justify that kind of stadium spend in Texas if the Olympics ever came your way (though I'd doubt it), but we can't here, and neither could Chicago when they proposed a very similar stadium to London's in their excellent, albeit unsuccessful, plan to host the Games.

In short, it'll be a long time before we see another Birds Nest so don't hold your breath. Rio's athletics stadium for 2016 isn't particularly amazing and the early favourites for 2020 aren't proposing flashy new-builds that'd cost billions either. Don't judge future hosts by China's extreme extravegance because most countries, including your own I suspect, would never be able to justify building what they built for an Olympics.

:)

[amor de cosmos]

hadid's aquatic centre:

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[amor de cosmos]

aerials in the telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/picturegalleries/8663484/New-aerial-photos-of-London-2012-Olympic-Games-venues.html

[amor de cosmos]

- More than 3,000 tons of structural steel went into the Aquatics Centre's sweeping roof — about 10 times the amount, needed for the Velodrome's cable-net roof, which has only a slightly smaller span. However, Jim Heverin, associate director of Zaha Hadid Architects, defended the firm's design, saying, "The roof’s wave form differentiates the diving from the pool area." He added that "the necessary spans and loadings dictated the structure. Our prime concern was in ensuring a column-free space." To do this the aluminium-clad roof could bear off only three points — a wall on the south and two cores to the north. "These constraints forced the steel structure to work harder," he explained.

- Hyped as the key building of the Olympic Park complex, the Aquatics Centre has instead found itself fighting for attention with the Velodrome, which cost just $152 million and has received much critical praise for its spare structural design. British critics have cited the Velodrome as the odds-on favourite to win this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize. But Hadid brushed off any hint of living in its shadow. "Ours is the second biggest venue [the main stadium is bigger], holding three times the Velodrome’s capacity [in Games mode], so they are not really comparable," she said. "And anyway, the park is big enough for two or three good projects. [Ours] is not the only beauty queen here."

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2011/07/1107298-Zaha-Hadid-Olympic-Aquatics-Centre.asp

[amor de cosmos]

vonsung: roundel pavilion for london olympics 2012

london based practice vonsung has proposed the 'roundel pavilion' for the 2012 olympic games information center located in london, england. sited within the iconic trafalgar square, the temporary structure's form references the established underground map symbols which has pervaded the city's transit system and are universally recognized. the circular plan arrangement displays a sense of unity that is universally understood by visitors of all countries, cultures and languages.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/information%20pavilion/to01.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/information%20pavilion/to07.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/15919/vonsung-roundel-pavilion-for-london-olympics-2012.html

[amor de cosmos]

London Is Getting The World's Biggest McDonald's For The 2012 Olympics
Adam Taylor | Jul. 20, 2011, 7:30 PM

McDonald's, one of the Olympic's official sponsors, will build the world's biggest McDonald's restaurant in East London for the 2012 Olympic Games, reports The Telegraph.

The restaurant can hold 1,500 people, and will be one of four McDonald's restaurants in the Olympic Park.

At 30,000 square feet the restaurant will beat the current biggest McDonald's in Orlando, Florida.

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4e274602ccd1d5fd01090000-590/slide-71.jpg

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4e27460349e2ae1e79160000-590/slide-11.jpg

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4e274a63cadcbb0168060000-590/slide-31.jpg

http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-london-olympics-biggest-2011-07

[amor de cosmos]

Populous reveals colourful stage set-inspired wrap for London Olympic Stadium

As the final preparations of the Olympic Games come closer, the London Olympic Stadium will soon unveil the wrap, sponsored by Dow. Embracing the temporary, the design by Populous adopts fresh sustainability ideas to create a compact, flexible and lightweight building inspired by the stage sets at outdoor events.

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/17242_1_London%202012%20Olympic%20Stadium%205mb.jpg

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=17242

[StethJeff]

hadid's aquatic centre:

0wRqnejg778

lemme guess, london media have called this one "The Tongue."

[amor de cosmos]

^ no I think it's the manta ray because of the temporary grandstands

London Aquatics Centre 2012 by Zaha Hadid
photographed by Hufton + Crow
12 August 2011

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2011/08/dezeen_London-Aquatics-Centre-2012-by-Zaha-Hadid_1.jpg http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2011/08/dezeen_London-Aquatics-Centre-2012-by-Zaha-Hadid_16.jpg

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2011/08/dezeen_London-Aquatics-Centre-2012-by-Zaha-Hadid_17.jpg http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2011/08/dezeen_London-Aquatics-Centre-2012-by-Zaha-Hadid_18.jpg

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/12/london-aquatics-centre-2012-by-zaha-hadid-photographed-by-hufton-crow/

[amor de cosmos]

hadid's aquatic centre:

0wRqnejg778

lemme guess, london media have called this one "The Tongue."

now that I think about it the aquatic venue looks like this alien:

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Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond’s ArcellorMittal Orbit Complete
November 2, 2011

The final loop of London’s ArcellorMittal Orbit was installed last Friday, completing what BDOnline calls the “mutant child of the Eiffel and Tatlin towers.” The 560m of writhing red steel was the brainchild of Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, and their tangled sculpture now looms 115m above London’s Olympic Park.

http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/orbit2.jpg

http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/orbit4.jpg

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/32882/arcellormittal-orbit-complete/

[amor de cosmos]

Giant Olympic 'sofa' approved
18 November, 2011 | By Kirsten Bruce

Jones East 8 has won planning permission for this temporary hospitality building in the shape of a sofa overlooking the Olympic Park in east London

The 18,000m² temporary hospitality venue includes a 8,700 inch television screen, a four-storey sofa and will be able to accommodate up to 8,000 people a day.
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/giant-olympic-sofa-approved/8622702.article

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/pictures/576x432fitpad%5B0%5D/6/9/4/1271694_3d_4a.jpg

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/giant-olympic-sofa-approved/8622702.article

[amor de cosmos]

in vancouver it was the long-track facility, in london it looks like it will be the velodrome:

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[RobH]

New flythrough and tour of London Olympic Park :cheers:

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[jd3189]

Ther should be a thread for all Olympic venues around the world from previous hosts. The ones London is making just got me interested in all of them.

[amor de cosmos]

this must be an apr 1 thing. or knowing london's traffic, maybe not:

Floating Olympic Lanes by Dowling Jones and Stone
1 April 2012

London Mayor Boris Johnson has unveiled audacious emergency plans to avoid total gridlock in London during this Summers Olympic Games. Boris left Londoners amazed as he today unveiled a floating Olympic motorway that will stretch from Wandsworth 7 miles to Limehouse along the famous Thames. The scheme was hastily developed after traffic plans for the Olympic Games including the infamous Olympic Lanes were widely criticised. The floating lanes, controversially ear marked for use only by official Olympic cars will feature a major access junction at the world famous Tower bridge. The 118 year old structure will be adapted to allow access to the river road. The huge temporary structure costing £12 million will be hastily constructed and floated into place and assembled in time for the start of the games in July.

Gregg Stone of designers Dowling Jones & Stone, the London based consultants said ”the games is an extraordinary event and London presents unique transport challenges, taking to the river was the only way to keep things flowing”.

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/dezeen_Floating-Olympic-Lanes-by-Dowling-Jones-and-Stone-1.jpg http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/04/dezeen_Floating-Olympic-Lanes-by-Dowling-Jones-and-Stone-3.jpg

[photoLith]

^
What? They actually expect to finish all that within 3 months? Yeah right.

[jd3189]

a very cool and innovating idea.

[Misterfreeman87]

I think its quite obvious that this is a april 1st joke.

Does anyone know why they don´t use the Millenium stadium as olympic stadium ?

[Greavsie]

I think its quite obvious that this is a april 1st joke.

Does anyone know why they don´t use the Millenium stadium as olympic stadium ?

because its in wales

[Misterfreeman87]

Oh wait, got confused. I meant the Wembley-Stadium. I mean its huge and new and not used by any club, so why not just use this one ??

[Greavsie]

Oh wait, got confused. I meant the Wembley-Stadium. I mean its huge and new and not used by any club, so why not just use this one ??

the football 5ournament is taking place there

[RobH]

It doesnt' have an athletics track
Wembley is hosting many matches in the Olympic football tournament.
The regeneration potentil would have been a lot less with a Wembley centred plan because...
London's plan was for a new Park in East London with an athletics legacy post-2012. Using Wembley (perhaps with a platform supported track) would've meant the plan would've been more spread out and left no athletics centre post-Games as promised.
The promise of an athletics stadium post-Games in a dedicated sports-park differentiated our bid from Paris'. I'm quite certain had London proposed Wembley, we'd be gearing up for Paris 2012 now, and the Olympic Park site would still look similar to this:




Here's the Olympic Park 10 years ago:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3572/3367015181_7ab706cf72_z.jpg
Fridge dump - site of Aquatics Centre

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3423/3367009909_3b37c664a7_z.jpg
Abandoned warehouse - site of main stadium

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3425/3367832968_7e3635dea4_z.jpg
Another photo of the Olympic Stadium site

http://www.derelictlondon.com/19c4304b0.jpg

http://www.derelictlondon.com/19b601220.jpg

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Here's how it looked in mid-2011, still a year away from completion:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1536/img7591o.jpg

http://www.london2012.com/transform/1965105/m700x/ibc.jpg

http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/2189/img8007f.jpg

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/3728/100811odamdadp022hi.jpg

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You're quite welcome to see more progress at the London 2012 forums at SSC.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1586

:)

[amor de cosmos]

stanton williams: eton manor

london-based firm stanton williams has sent images of the recently completed 'eton manor', a venue for the olympic and paralympic aquatic training for the london 2012 olympic park. accommodating 10,500 spectators for wheelchair tennis events and 3,000 for hockey games, the complex revitalizes its immediate context while creating a northern gateway into the park. the land has been reshaped to create smooth and accessible transitions from the area to bridges and facilities. a freshly layered site engages with its surroundings, tranforming the original heritage of the community center into a location for sporting legacy.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/eton%20manor/em01.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/eton%20manor/em02.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/eton%20manor/em07.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/eton%20manor/em09.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/20395/stanton-williams-eton-manor.html

[Misterfreeman87]

Thanks RobH, i guess that makes sense then.
London has to be the city with the most top-notch stadiums.

[goldcntry]

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/lauren/eton%20manor/em09.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/20395/stanton-williams-eton-manor.html

I love how the Shard is peeking up on the horizon in the right-hand corner... Well done London!

[RobH]

The wrap's starting to be installed. Two panels down, 334 to go!

Live webcam:
http://www.london2012.com/transform/1965129/m700x/stadium-long.jpg

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[The_Architect]

Biggest thing that bothers me about the Olympic Park is that 1. They aren't letting the public in unless they buy a specific ticket, and built a gigantic electrified Berlin Wall around it, and 2. the flipping torch is inside the stadium, away from public view.

[CyberEric]

I haven't been in the park yet, I will be going to a football/soccer match next week, but I can say from outside that the stadium looks pretty bland and boring, nothing close to as impressive as the Bird's Nest in Beijing (which I saw in person as well) but maybe I'll like it more when I am closer.

The aquatic center is gorgeous.

The giant red exhaust pipe is an abomination.

[nito]

Biggest thing that bothers me about the Olympic Park is that 1. They aren't letting the public in unless they buy a specific ticket, and built a gigantic electrified Berlin Wall around it, and 2. the flipping torch is inside the stadium, away from public view.I'll have to check, but I think that this is the first time that an Olympic Park has been 'opened' up to the public in the modern era with 'passes'. Unfortunately it looks like demand was off the charts as I too was unable to get passes.

The gated aspect to the park is unfortunate, but an IOC requirement (principally a relic of the events in Munich, as is the 'security road' that runs around the perimeter), in legacy mode the park will be opened up entirely.

The approach to the flame is definitely unique, but then that’s trademark London: being different and challenging the norm. I believe it was Thomas Heatherwick (the designer of the cauldron) who reflected that over the years the approach to the cauldron had become sterile, with little design evolution and a growing lack of intimacy. Interestingly I believe the 1948 cauldron was also resided inside the stadium.

[The_Architect]

I haven't been in the park yet, I will be going to a football/soccer match next week, but I can say from outside that the stadium looks pretty bland and boring, nothing close to as impressive as the Bird's Nest in Beijing (which I saw in person as well) but maybe I'll like it more when I am closer.

The aquatic center is gorgeous.

The giant red exhaust pipe is an abomination.

IIRC the Olympic Stadium here is temporary (or at least partially temporary) whereas the Beijing one was permanent. The Aquatics Centre is permanent, but the white "wings" on the sides of it are temporary. Other than that I think the Water Polo arena and Basketball Arena are temporary as well.

[nito]

IIRC the Olympic Stadium here is temporary (or at least partially temporary) whereas the Beijing one was permanent. The Aquatics Centre is permanent, but the white "wings" on the sides of it are temporary. Other than that I think the Water Polo arena and Basketball Arena are temporary as well.Correct.

Olympic Park Venues - Permanent
Copper Box, Handball Arena (7,000)
Velodrome (6,000)

Olympic Park Venues - Permanent with Temporary Additions
Olympic Stadium (80,000 > 25,000-60,000)
Aquatics Centre (17,500 > 2,500+)
Eton Manor (10,000 > TBC)

Olympic Park Venues - Temporary
Basketball Arena (12,000)
Riverbank Arena 1 (15,000)
Riverbank Arena 2 (5,000)
Water Polo Arena (5,000)

Across London and the South East there are a whole host of entirely temporary venues (Greenwich Park for Equestrian, Royal Artillery Barracks for Shooting and Horse Guards Parade for the Beach Volleyball), and utilisation of existing venues or sites (ExCeL, the O2, Lord’s Cricket Ground, Wimbledon, Wembley Arena, etc...) with various amendments or temporary seating. You then have all the football stadia across the UK, including Wembley in London

Outside of the Olympic Park, only the Lea Valley White Water Centre and Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy are permanent.

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