FEATURE — LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS
During the Games, the Olympic Stadium will have a projected
capacity of 80,000 but to create a more sustainable post-Games
legacy, it has been designed in a way that will enable the
lightweight steel and concrete upper tier (which holds 55,000
seats) to be dismantled, leaving only the permanent lower tier, to
form a 25,000-capacity legacy stadium.
seats) to be dismantled, leaving only the permanent
lower tier, to form a 25,000-capacity legacy stadium.
An Olympic Stadium with such a large removable
element and mix of permanent and temporary seating
has never been attempted before, and at the time of
writing the exact timeframe of the downsizing and
uses for the stadium post Games have yet to be firmly
established. While the ODA and the London Mayor’s
office have long said that a permanent 25,000-seat
athletics facility would remain in legacy mode, their
remains some doubt as to when, or even if this down-
sizing will happen. The full 80,000-capacity stadiumBox 2 — Olympic Stadium:
has been included in the initial bid document for Eng-Facts and Figures
land’s 2018 FIFA World Cup bid, and it has also been
persistently linked with numerous Premier and FootballDesigned by Zaha ■ Over 1,000 construction workers will be based on
Hadid, the most the Stadium site League clubs (the most recent being West Ham United
striking feature of the ■ 33 buildings on the Olympic Stadium site have after their takeover in January) as anchor tenants post
Aquatics Centre is its been demolished
Games. The Stadium has also been touted as a poten-spectacular wave-like
2 ■ Over 800,000 tonnes of soil has been taken away toroof. The 11,000m tial host for the 2015 World Athletics Championships
help create the construction platform for the Stadiumroof structure is 160m and as a venue for the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup,
— enough to fill the Royal Albert Hall nine times overlong and up to 80m
but while its post Games use remains uncertain, thewide, and with a ■ The Olympic Stadium is highly sustainable,
retention of the athletics track is not under threat.120m span from the containing around 10,000 tonnes of steel — the
concrete wall at the lightest Olympic Stadium to date The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) was
south end to the two ■ The total Olympic Stadium island site covers an formed in 2009 by new London Mayor Boris Johnson,
concrete cores at the area of 40 acres — five times the size of the Houses of
with the aim to transform the whole Olympic Parknorth, it has a longer Parliament
single span than the post-Games into legacy mode. But while the OPLC will
■ The Olympic Stadium is 53m high — taller thannew roof at Heathrow
have the final say on the stadium’s use post-Games,Nelson’s Column (50m)Terminal 5.
there is no doubt in the mind of LOCOG Chairman,■ The Olympic Stadium’s
roof covers an area of Sebastian Coe, that it will retain the running track.
24,500sqm — the equivalent
to three and a half football
pitches
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