please empty your brain below
That said, I think an opportunity has been lost to locate something there that could have been unique to the OP. Just like ABBA does. Rebuilding the London Museum in the park would have been ideal. In the same way that the traditional ancient markets have been moved out east. Sadly the City corporation seems still to imagine that only itself can represent London, with the 32 boroughs only good for the re-siting of the untidy bits of the old City.
We'll have to wait another ten years to see if the buildings and tenants are successful. The BBC is most likely to be the weakest link, due to the coming report on its future.
Hopefully, see you in another ten years. I'll push you if you can't push me.
I must admit not having been in the park at all other then driving through on the A12 or is that driving past?
As for the wider QEOP, I visit every couple of years to take in developments but have yet to find much to commend it - other than it's better than the area was before.
The Orbit looked like a rusty piece of crap but then to me it always did. Unless of course it is an ironic homage to those stalwarts of London and sarf Essex culture, the scrap metal dealers.
I am obviously culturally deprived and miss the point, but I think it greatlydetracts from the rest of the park.
DG 06/04/2024
High fives at TfL.
The sporting infrastructure left behind is still a massive asset too. The stadium gets all the headlines, but the velodrome, aquatic centre, hockey centre and Copper Box are all very useful.
Although another way to look at it is that humanity is getting a bit better at adaptng to these four-yearly events. London got swept up by the general tendency to plan things with a bit more attention to lasting legacy. Not done perfectly by any means, but sort of OK.
It feels like London 2012 was the last of the ‘legacy’-focused Olympics (although I’ve not got detailed knowledge what happened with Rio and Tokyo). I’m in California at the moment and had a look around where the 2028 Games will be hosted. There is a *lot* of pride about how there is nothing new being built aside from some new transit lines, and therefore nothing will be left behind. Even the swimming pool will be a temporary structure built over a baseball diamond. Paris is similar in its reuse of existing facilities.
The 2012 Games really were an intelligent way to kick-start development of a whole tranche of east London. Whether it was value for money is perhaps debatable.
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