London Olympic Design By EDAW

 

London celebrated winning the 2012 Olympic Games in July.

The San Francisco-based landscape architecture and planning firm EDAW has began work on Olympic facilities for the 2012 London Games. The master plan team arrived on July 11 to start the considerable work that lies ahead.

During the bid development process, the team of landscape architects, urban designers, architects, engineers, economists, and environmental planners drafted a plan for the Games and the transition that will occur afterwards. Master plan team leader Jason Prior suspects that London’s win is due in part to the team’s attention to the Lea Valley site’s post-Olympic legacy.

“The IOC were convinced by the extraordinary ambition of the London 2012 plan,” Prior notes. “The Olympic Park will not only create a beautiful and inspiring venue for the Games, but will also form the heart of a new quarter for London in the years that follow.” The city found the plan so promising that it had committed to undertake its regeneration recommendations regardless of whether London won the right to host the Games.

Designers and planners remain to be selected for a number of features, including permanent and temporary competition venues, open spaces—Including a 500-acre urban park that promises to be the largest built in Europe in the last 150 years.