Ten years on from the Olympic Games, the parklands are home to beautiful wildflower meadows, woodlands and wetlands for all to enjoy.
Lecture: Mary Margaret Jones on “Olympic Landscapes: Green and Greenest”
On April 14, 2016, Mary Margaret Jones, President and Senior Principal of Hargreaves Associates, San Francisco and Cambridge, and Hargreaves Jones Landscape Architecture in New York, delivered the Public Lecture in Garden and Landscape Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Titled “Olympic Landscapes: Green and Greenest,” Jones examined in depth her firm’s work designing Olympic parks for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Source: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection on Youtube
London 2012; London Festival of Architecture 2015
This month, there are two walking tours in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Both tours are part of the London Festival of Architecture 2015. (website)
A Walk in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: Function and beauty in landscape
Landscape Institute
11 June
6.30—8.30pm
Timber Lodge, North Park, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E20 2ST
Tickets
New London Walking Tour: Olympic Park
New London architecture
13 June
2—4pm
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E20 2ST
Tickets
London 2012; The Landscape Legacy of the Olympics
A series of interviews by the Landscape Institute on the role of landscape architects in the Olympic Games:
- Part 1: The Client’s Perspective
- Part 2: Masterplanning the Olympic Site
- Part 3: The Olympic Gardens
- Part 4: Delivering the Olympic Park
- Part 5: The Olympic Village
- Part 6: Engineering the Olympic
- Part 7: The Olympic Planting Strategy
- Part 8: Ecology of the Olympic Site
- Part 9: The Olympic Soil Strategy
- Part 10: Writing an Olympic Brief