Olympic Park 2012

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Last weekend, despite the torrential rain, visitors from Paris enjoyed the stunning view of the emerging Olympic Park complete with a rainbow just over the main 2012 stadium!

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I noticed this yellowish/greenish building appear some months ago and mistook it for a temporary venue for construction workers, like those near the Olympic Stadium. In fact it is the so-called View Tube, which:

“….is a social enterprise and community venue located on The Greenway adjacent to the Olympic Park. It was built using recycled shipping containers whose construction and installation was delivered by Urban Space Management.”

It is a great place to get a look out over the development site, take pix and visit the cafe. The infomation gives a good overview of the plans for the area, with maps and view-point descriptions, of where you can look out over the Aquatics Centre and Staduim.

You can get there from the greenway:090922_view-tube-directions

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Stadium Top Tier Completed 17th July 2009

The final Truss of the Olympic Stadium’s Shell was put into place today 16^th July 09, around five and a half months since we saw the first of those steel ‘roof pieces’. The completed circle looks striking, and much more attractive than the dodgy soil and disused printworks we use to have.

It is 14 months since work began, and actually the end July target ODA set for the Stadium was to only have started the roof structure. So hats off to the busy construction contractors McApline (also responsible for Arsenal’s ‘emirates stadium’). This is helping to raise expectations of a smooth run up to the games in the next 3 years.

A lot of work remains to be done of course on this and other key buildings. I expect we will see the swimming pool shape up first, then the basket ball arena as contracts have recently been given out. As the Ayrshire Post reports, “BARR Construction has won a share of a £58m contract to build a basketball arena for the London Olympics.”  More on those ones later, right now I am happy to add a picture to the set of timelapse photos, which has a full top tier ring!

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Olympic Arena 2012 being built in East London on 3rd July 2009

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17th July 2008

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Well winter scenery of the development site anyway…and yes they did struggle into work even though no buses were running.

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31st Jan – the new layer of seating (which is temporary and will be removed after the games) has started even though the first circle is yet to be completed….

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