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No Landscape Architects on Olympic Design Panel06-16-06 | News

No Landscape Architects on Olympic Design Panel




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A preliminary rendering shows a plan for a landscape park linking key venues for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The Thames River is at top. Image: www.construction.com


Landscape Architects were recently dropped from the design team for the 2012 Games in London. British LAs aren?EUR??,,????'?????<

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London narrowly wrangled from Paris the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Olympic site comprises 200 hectares (500 acres) in the Stratford area of east London.

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The master planning, Moore asserts, started with the proposition that the Olympic Park landscape?EUR??,,????'?????<

But less than a year after London won the Games, Moore is concerned that what started out right is now going astray. The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) design panel has been announced?EUR??,,????'?????<

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Jack Lemley is chairman of the ODA. From 1989 until 1993 Lemley was the CEO of Transmanche-Link, the consortium of five British and five French companies that designed and built the Channel Tunnel.

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