On May 15, some of the UK’s most distinguished architects presented their designs for the Aquatic Centre, the Velodrome and the Basketball Stadium – three of the most inventive and symbolic buildings of the Olympic Park – explaining how they have been conceived to be adapted or dismantled after the Games. The complex process behind this massive regeneration project have been described by some of the principal protagonists who commissioned the buildings and public spaces, providing a social, economic and environmental context to the architecture of the Olympic Games.
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Andy Altman
Andy Altman is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Cities and former Chief Executive, London Legacy Development Corporation 2009-2012.
Ricky Burdett
Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age project. He is a member of the Mayor of London’s Cultural Leadership Board, and was chief advisor on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics and architectural advisor to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006. He was director of the International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2006. With Deyan Sudjic he is co-editor of The Endless City (2007) and Living in the Endless City (2011) and, with Philipp Rode Shaping Cities in an Urban Age (2018).
Jim Eyre
Jim Eyre is Director of WilkinsonEyre Architects.
Jim Heverin
Jim Heverin is Associate Director of Zaha Hadid Architects
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor is Senior Partner at Hopkins Architects.
Nicholas Serota
Nicholas Serota is Director of the Tate.