‘Design is at the heart of what we are doing here’

By and Amanda Baillieu Amanda Baillieu 2006-12-01T00:00:00

Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Aquatics Centre has been scaled down, but will still be an iconic symbol of the 2012 games.

Ricky Burdett is to become design adviser to the London Olympics after mounting critcism that the design of the 2012 games is being handed to contractors.

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