Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – Architecture of the Games

April 24, 2019April 24, 2019

London 2012; Park map Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (April 2019)

April 6, 2019

London 2012; Five years of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: Infographic by The London Legacy Development Corporation

Today marks 5 years since @noordinarypark re-opened. Our mission is to use the opportunity of London 2012 and the Park to create a dynamic new centre for London, and develop an inspiring and innovative place where people want, and can afford, to live, work and visit #QEOP5Years pic.twitter.com/ksUveZaUnZ

— London Legacy (@LondonLegacy) 5 april 2019

January 19, 2019

London 2012; Video Bobby Moore Academy (Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park)

Bobby Moore Academy, Olympic Park, London – Penoyre & Prasad from Penoyre & Prasad on Vimeo.

The David Ross Education Trust Bobby Moore Academy comprises a new primary school and secondary school split over two sites. Located in the heart of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, it is built to serve the growing local community. The 2FE primary school for 420 children is located along the Lee Navigation Canal to the west of the Olympic stadium.

November 4, 2018November 3, 2018

London 2012; Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park update (November 2018)

21 Modular workspaces were placed on the structure of Here East, the former IBC at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park:

Hawkins\Brown installs WikiHouse workplaces on former Olympic Broadcast Centre https://t.co/w3VAQHFN0T pic.twitter.com/OrjhJdeeut

— Dezeen (@dezeen) 26 oktober 2018

The V&A unveiled plans for two new sites in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park:

O’Donnell + Tuomey's V&A East museum is designed as a stand-alone pavilion within the Olympicopolis development https://t.co/zwWPcWur8s

— Dezeen (@dezeen) 2 november 2018

June 7, 2018June 7, 2018

London 2012; Building designs for East Bank unveiled

Stratford Waterfront. Image via Mayor of London.

Press release by Mayor of London:

Mayor unveils £1.1bn vision for East Bank
05 June 2018

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today set out his £1.1bn vision for East Bank at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – a new powerhouse of culture, education, innovation and growth, and welcomed a £151m contribution now secured by the Government.

Sadiq unveiled new plans and building designs for Sadler’s Wells, London College of Fashion (part of University of the Arts London) and the V&A including a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, across Stratford Waterfront.

Source: mayor of London
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May 30, 2018May 29, 2018

London 2012; London Festival of Architecture 2018 – Of Silt, Rust and Chemicals – A talk about the new Olympic Legacy project at Hackney Wick Station

Of Silt, Rust and Chemicals
– A talk about the new Olympic Legacy project at Hackney Wick Station

In 2014 Landolt + Brown, working in collaboration with architect trained artist Wendy Hardie, were appointed to design an Olympic Legacy project at Hackney Wick Station, including a new public connection beneath the railway and associated public realm.

The design, embedding art within its process from the start, explores overlapping narratives drawn from the Lee River, its canal and lost chemical industries. It embraces the massive concrete structures required to form a new underpass, exposing and building on this weighty character to reflect the silt, mud flats and willows of the Lee. Its surfaces change from saw-tooth profile – drawing on the canal’s sheet piled edges and factory folding screens– to board-cast concrete stairs echoing the twisting bark and trunks of the weeping willows. A debossed frieze cast into the underpass is based on the chemical compounds of dyes, plastic and petroleum once produced at Hackney wick. A 35m continuous chain of glass hexagons, drawn from molecular chemistry, runs the length of the subway, creating a shimmering environment evoking memories of the compressed, enigmatic spaces under the canal towpath bridges. Canopies forming the underpass entrance are built of heavy-gauge, plated, weathering steel reinforcing the Wick’s gritty, industrial character.

The talk on site will be led by the architect with contributions from the collaborating artist, project engineers and the client team. The talk is free but please book using the Eventbrite link.

June 14, 2018
18:30 – 20:00
Admission: FREE
Tickets/Booking: Eventbrite

Venue
Hackney Wick Station
Hackney Wick Station Wallis Road London E9 5LH
The main entrance is from the south, via White Post Lane.

Organiser
Landolt + Brown Architects
Website: www.landoltandbrown.com
Twitter: @LandoltandBrown
Instagram: @landoltbrown

Source: Website London Festival of Architecture