All London Olympics articles – Page 20
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OpinionAmbition is key to Olympics
The ODA needs to deliver on its design rhetoric if the Olympics are to match our confident structures of the past
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OpinionGames need design, delivery and legacy
Commentators have written recently that it has been “a good couple of weeks” for design and the Olympics. Amid some of the negative headlines on this same issue this is good to hear, but I do fear that the debate over the design approach for Olympic venues is in danger ...
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Opinion
Jowell ducks 2012 design responsibility
From Nervi’s stadium for the Rome games to Isosaki’s for Barcelona, it’s hard to think of an Olympics where the architecture has not been commissioned by the host nation as a work of civic stature with international status.
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Opinion
First decision provides Olympic hope
With the new year, a new fear. The story of the successful Olympic bid was a highlight of 2005.
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OpinionCan we resist an icon Olympics?
The contest to design venues for 2012 must be intellectually curious as well as commercially competitive. Koolhaas, Chipperfield and Zaera Polo have set the pace
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News
Beware of 2012 trophies, warn analysts
City analysts are divided over the extent to which the Olympics will provide a boost for the construction industry, with some warning architects not to get involved in “big trophy projects” following previous high-profile problems on Wembley Stadium and Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.
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Opinion
2012 race is the golden opportunity
It already seems a world away, but the euphoria of last week’s decision to hand London the right to host the 2012 Olympics, will resonate through architecture in this country and beyond for the next decade.
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Opinion
Olympic challenge
The International Olympic Committee has always recognised culture as an integral component of the Olympic movement. Those who see it purely in terms of sport sometimes forget this. Until 1948 there were Olympic medals for architecture, town planning, sculpture and other art forms.Interested in the connection between architects and the ...
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Opinion
Plunging to new depths
In your edition of February 4, I read, and not without despair, that: Hadid’s aquatics centre has “a roof inspired by the flow of water”; Sauerbruch Hutton’s Frankfurt office was “inspired by the natural world”; and Chris Wilkinson’s King’s Dock project was based on “my mobile phone”.Is this the ...
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NewsZahas competition wins keep on flowing
Zaha Hadid has continued her spectacular series of competition wins by clinching the commission for the Aquatics Centre for London’s 2012 Olympics bid. Hadid, who won the competition for the Architecture Foundation’s new headquarters last month, has come up with a sinuous S-shaped roof inspired by the flow of water.The ...