All London Olympics articles – Page 13
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NewsPopulous shows off 2012 Olympic overlay work
Work for Locog will create “delight” as well as well-functioning venues and infrastructure.
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NewsWest Ham reveals its stadium bid dream team
Olympic stadium-designer Populous has been working on West Ham United’s bid to turn the 80,000-seat complex into a football and athletics venue once next year’s games are finished, BD has learned.
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NewsGensler draws up ski slope for Olympic media site
Gensler has drawn up plans for a radical indoor snow resort which could be built on the site of the Olympic media centre in Stratford.The 28,500sq m snow sports and leisure complex - called Snow in the City - is being built by artificial ski slope creator Acer Snowmec.The company, ...
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Building StudyOlympic Velodrome by Hopkins
The London 2012 cycling venue is the first to be completed at the Olympic Park, and it sets a high standard for its fellow sports facilities to reach.
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NewsWest Ham wins battle for the Olympic Stadium
West Ham United has been named as the preferred bidder to take over the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 games, it was announced today.The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) unanimously chose the premiership football club’s bid over rival club Tottenham’s, which involved demolishing the Populous-designed stadium and replacing it with ...
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NewsWest Ham's stadium 'win' is branded pure speculation
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has denied reports that West Ham’s bid for Populous’s 2012 stadium has already won its backing – before tomorrow’s crunch board meeting.
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NewsKSS reveals Tottenham's Olympic site plans
KSS has unveiled the first images of its proposed stadium for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club at the Olympic Park site.
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NewsMPs back West Ham in 2012 stadium bid
A host of London-based Labour MPs have backed West Ham Football Club’s bid to take over the Olympic stadium, as the Olympic Park Legacy Company deferred a decision over the future tenant of the Populous-designed arena.
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OpinionDo Tottenham’s stadium plans betray London’s 2012 promise?
Yes, says Tessa Jowell, we need a world class athletics stadium; while Andrew Boff says it’s daft to risk everything for the track.
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NewsMake's 2012 handball arena nears completion
The copper roof of Make’s London 2012 Olympic Handball Arena has been completed and more than half of the 6,500 seats are now in place.
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NewsSpurs plan would 'trash' country's sporting reputation, warns Coe
Sebastian Coe has warned that Britain’s sporting reputation would be “trashed” if the Olympic Stadium was demolished to make way for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.As BD noted on Friday, Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 organising committee (Locog) had promised the International Olympics Committee (IOC) that a key part ...
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NewsHopkins plan boosts 1948 velodrome campaign
Next year’s Olympics could help secure the future of the Victorian venue which hosted cycling events at the 1908 and 1948 games, campaigners hope.
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NewsArchitect defends Spurs' Olympic stadium demolition plan
The architect behind Tottenham Hotspur FC’s plans to tear down and rebuild the Olympic Stadium has defended the proposals, insisting they are sustainable and not a waste of taxpayer¹s money.David Keirle, chairman of KSS and lead architect for Spurs said it was “nonsense” to say the north London club’s scheme, ...
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NewsTottenham Hotspur plans demolition of 2012 Olympic stadium
Architect working for club says Populous-designed structure not suitable for football
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NewsAnish Kapoor's Orbit to become 'world leading attraction'
The ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Olympic Park will “be one of the world’s most spectacular visitor attractions”, enticing up to a million visitors in its first year, bosses have claimed
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NewsNew photographs of Zaha Hadid's 2012 Acquatics dive boards
Dive champion Tom Daley experiences one of six distinctive concrete boards created by the architect
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NewsDeveloper teams shortlisted for Olympic village expansion
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has shortlisted nine teams including Urban Splash and Qatari Diar for the long-term development and management of the Olympic village in East London.
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NewsStudio Weave and the ODA to design floating cinema
The Olympic Delivery Authority has commissioned Studio Weave to design a floating cinema which will cruise the canals of the five Olympic host boroughs next summer.
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Building StudyChandos East Community Centre, Newham, by Adams and Sutherland
A community centre in Newham is the first Olympic regeneration project to be completed and its influence will be felt far beyond its locality, says Andrew Houlton