The London 2012 Olympics including the Olympic Stadium at Stratford, 2012 Olympic games, the orbit Tower sculpture and the legacy use of the infrastructure such as West Ham United football club moving to the olympic stadium
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| Orbit Tower in progress |
| London Orbit Tower Rises at Olympic Park |
| London Cable Car May Go Ahead |
Orbit Tower (ArcelorMittal Orbit) #2
20110302 work-in-progress. The Orbit Tower will be one of the attractions in the London 2012 Olympic Park. There will be two viewing platforms accessible by elevator. Sculptor: Anish Kapoor, Structural Designer: Cecil Balmond. Design and Engineering: Ove Arup. The controversial red tubular steel tower will be 115m tall and completion is due in spring 2012. London Borough of Newham.
Image: George Rex Photography)
Video show the construction well underway of the Orbit Tower at the London 2012 Olympic Park site in Stratford East London.
The 115m tall art sculpture with a public viewing platform is formally named the Arcelor Mittal Orbit, and will be 22m higher than New York’s Statue of Liberty when completed, which looks like a matter of weeks as the pr-constructed iron pieces can be seen waiting on the site ready to be welded into place. Further pictures and videos of the growing installation will be uploaded over the coming period.
Planning applications for a new London cable car crossing over the Thames linking 2012 Olympic venues in east London have been submitted by Transport for London. TfL has submitted the plans to both Newham and Greenwich borough councils proposing that a London Cable Car station be built a few hundred metres from the O2 arena. The scheme, which it is hoped will be in operation by 2012, is designed to cut journey times between the arena and the ExCel exhibition centre – both of which will be venues for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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