The Olympic Park

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

The Olympic and Legacy Masterplans have transformed a post-industrial backwater into the largest park created in London in the past 150 years. New east-west connections and a pragmatic approach to venue design is allowing for new neighbourhoods with thousands of homes to take root. And the park will soon host the most significant collection of cultural and educational buildings to be built in Britain since the Victorian era.

In this film, Bob Allies (Partner of Allies and Morrison) leads a tour of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - narrating the transformation of its waterways into accessible amenity at the centre of the reshaped landscape of the Lea Valley. The tour starts in the North Park showing the mature natural landscape, the permanent venues such as the Velodrome and the residential neighbourhoods that are being established along the edges of the park. The tour then moves to the South Park with it's metropolitan character and the new cultural and educational quarter of East Bank that is beginning to take shape.

Allies and Morrison had been involved in the planning and design of the site since 2003 as part of London's successful bid to host the Olympics and led the Legacy Communities Scheme masterplan with Aecom.

This film is part of a three part series, exploring the role of wellbeing and architecture around east London, kindly supported by Allies and Morrison and with thanks to the LLDC. View the others in the series: The Lee Navigation Canal and Core Landscapes