All 2012 Olympics articles – Page 8
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FeaturesAre you a Building 2012 Hero?
Calling all those who worked on the Olympics - Building is on the hunt for five people whose outstanding contribution helped make the Games a success
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NewsArchitect outed as source of West Ham Olympic bid complaint
Architect Steve Lawrence reveals he was source of anonymous state aid complaint about stadium legacy plans
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NewsOlympics minister backs Building 2012
Hugh Robertson has joined other senior government figures in backing Building’s campaign to celebrate the Olympic construction achievement
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FeaturesHow the Olympics and Jubilee are driving London projects
The Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee have given the capital a real lift this year and all sorts of projects that were languishing in the design drawer are now busily being prepared, spurred on by civic pride and that unyielding deadline. Ike Ijeh looks at the best of them
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NewsFocus on wind turbine blamed for Olympic renewables failure
Sir John Armitt says ODA’s focus on wind turbine to provide electricity for Olympic park was a mistake
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FeaturesSpotlight on: Jubilee Gardens
The Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee have given the capital a real lift this year and all sorts of projects that were languishing in the design drawer are now busily being prepared, spurred on by civic pride and that unyielding deadline. Here’s one such project, Jubilee Gardens
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NewsMargaret Ford to leave legacy company
Chair of Olympic regeneration body to step down after the Games
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NewsDesigns for floating pavilion at Olympics unveiled
Pavilion will be situated on elevated site above the Waterworks River
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Work to secure Olympic park green legacy complete
Environment Agency hails completion of its work with the Olympic Delivery Authority to create new urban park
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FeaturesLOCOG's James Bulley: The fall guy
As LOCOG’s head of venues and infrastructure, James Bulley has just six months to install 200,000 temporary seats, put up 76 miles of fencing, finish the hockey stadium, weed the rowing lake … and take the rap if anything goes wrong. So why is he so calm? Building finds out. ...
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NewsOPLC to procure £95m Olympic stadium rebuild
Legacy company will ask interested contractors to pre-qualify ‘before Easter’
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NewsNo marketing rule ‘just needs imagination’, says ODA chairman
Sir John Armitt says contractors can work around Olympic no marketing protocols
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NewsCall to raise green standards of Olympic legacy housing
New Mayoral Development Corporation told current plans will fail to be beacon for sustainability
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NewsBam Nuttall bags £76m Olympic park rebuild job
Appointment comes as legacy company prepares to procure £95m stadium rebuild
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NewsOlympic media centre re-fit to cost £100m
Legacy company real estate boss flags huge redevelopment job post-Games
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NewsOlympic construction workers recreate masterpiece
‘Bathers’ pose for photographic recreation of 19th century painting
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CommentBuilding memories: British school design in 1948
As Willmott Dixon starts work on ‘off the shelf’ schools, we go back in time to see how Building reported on standardised school design in 1948
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FeaturesWill the Olympics mean other projects in London get delayed?
Traffic restrictions set for the six weeks of the Olympic and Paralympic Games are designed to help cope with unprecedented levels of visitors to the capital. But could London’s other construction projects end up in a jam?
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FeaturesThe London 1948 Olympics: Running on empty
If the preparations for London 2012 have sometimes felt like an uphill struggle, at least we haven’t had to ask the world to bring its own food. Launching our Building Memories series from the magazine archive, Building looks back to the Austerity Olympics of 1948 - the last time the ...