All London Olympics articles – Page 19
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NewsODA in row over Aquatics Centre legacy provision
A row has broken out between the Olympic Delivery Authority and Newham Council over leisure water facilities as part of the legacy provisions associated with Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre.
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OpinionWe need to see Olympic projects
A visitors’ centre will open people’s eyes to what an incredible project we’re building
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News2012 visitors centre could be reduced to a portacabin
Studio Egret West’s scheme threatened by fears of spiralling costs and too many clients
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ODA defends changes to 2012 stadium
The Olympic Delivery Authority has defended HOK’s scheme for the 2012 main stadium after BD revealed images last week of a more complex roof structure and a redesigned “wrap” elevation.
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NewsOlympic Stadium’s latest design unveiled
See the latest designs for the London 2012 Olympic stadium and join in the debate about its design qualities.
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AnalysisCrack team rides in to save Olympic Village
Will the new line-up of heavy hitters brought in to run the 2012 Athletes’ Village help lift the project out of the doldrums? BD’s news desk reports
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OpinionRed mist over the Beijing Olympics
Attempts by politicians to bask in the glow of the Olympic flame always end in tears
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NewsStanton Williams scoops Olympics contract for Eton Manor
Stanton Williams has won the last of the major architectural design contacts for the London 2012 Olympics.The firm's “rational and holistic” proposals for a cluster of venues and facilities at Eton Manor helped it beat competition from David Adjaye and Bennetts Associates among others to land the contract. The other ...
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OpinionCabe’s Olympic subtext
Cabe’s supine praise for our hamstrung 2012 designs betrays its real fears of further assaults on creativity
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Opinion
...or worse
Oh dear! What on earth has happened to the Aquatics Centre? In 2006, it became a giant panty liner.
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Opinion
It’s a belly flop...
From the way the ODA organised the Aquatics Centre project, there was a terrible inevitability about the dire final design (News February 1).
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NewsAquatic Centre: swan dive or belly flop?
The Olympic Delivery Authority has denied that Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre has been compromised by legacy concerns, despite the addition of two massive seating stands for use during the 2012 games.
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NewsBellyflop: Zaha Hadid's reworked Aquatic Centre disappoints - more images and visitors comments
As revealed by BD in November, Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre now includes two temporary stands.The temporary seating stands – to be removed after the Games have a ten year lifespan but the Olympic Deliver Authority expects them to be reused and incorporated into a permanent, or semi-permanent facility.The centre was ...
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Analysis2012 claims fail to make a splash
Architects have been promised that the Olympic boom will spread outside London as teams seek training bases. But will inadequate existing facilities mean they look outside the UK instead?Tom de Castella investigates
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NewsHadid's Aquatic centre is redesigned
The ODA’s quest to find a legacy use for Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Aquatic Centre has further compromised the architect’s original concept, a new image shows.
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OpinionStadium disappoints all round
Far from being innovative and ground-breaking as claimed, the Olympic stadium is unsustainable and bad value for money
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AnalysisWill market forces stifle bold design?
Contractors can pick and choose projects, citing costs, skills shortages and the booming market. But is this bad for architecture.
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Second contractor ditches Olympic Aquatic Centre bid
German contractor Hochtief has become the second contractor in the space of a month to pull out of the contest to build Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Aquatic Centre.Balfour Beatty is now the only firm in the running for the contract, after Hochtief announced it had withdrawn, citing a busy workload. In ...
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Sunken Olympic stadium will be "engineering first"
The designers of the 2012 Olympic stadium are proposing sinking parts of the structure up to 20ft into the ground, as the Olympic Delivery Authority promises an “engineering first”. The ODA says it is in the process of finalising designs for the flagship structure and claims that “work is going ...
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...while ODA calls in experts to vet stadium
Designs for the 2012 Olympic stadium by Peter Cook and HOK Sport are to be reviewed by a rival practice appointed by the ODA, raising fears the organisation is pursuing an ultra-cautious approach based on minimising risk.