The Olympic Park Legacy Company unveils shortlisted designs for North Park competition

Images of the shortlisted designs for the North Park Visitor Centre and Playground are now available to view online.

Following the design competition launched in the summer, the five shortlisted schemes are now on public view;  online at the dedicated competition microsite and at the Legacy Company’s public exhibitions at Stratford Regional Station(8th to 10th and 15th to 17th November), the Legacy Company’s office (from 18th November) and New London Architecture (from 21st November).

Further details of dates and locations.

Kathryn Firth, Chief of Design at the Olympic Park Legacy Company, said:

‘These are inspiring designs to match the north park’s stunning river valley and green parkland that the community hub will be set in.

‘Legacy plans for the Park are more advanced than any other previous host Olympic city and this visitor centre and playground will be one of the first attractions added to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.’

The shortlisted teams for the North Park are:

• Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture Ltd (London) in collaboration with structural engineer Engineers HRW (London), services consultant OR Consulting (London) and quality surveyor Stockdale
• David Kohn Architects (London) in collaboration with landscape architects David Buck (London), Davies White (Surrey), consultancy Alan Baxter & Associates LLP (London) and project managers and cost consultants Jackson Coles (London)
• erect architecture (London) in collaboration with consulting structural engineers Tall engineers (London),  service engineers Max Fordham (London), landscape consultants Land Use Consultants (London), artist and enabler Ashley McMormick (London), quantity surveyor Huntley Cartwright (Surrey) and play safety experts Children's Play Advisory Service (Coventry)
• The Landscape Partnership (London) in collaboration with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects (London), structural engineers Jane Wernick Associates (London), M&E engineers Skelly&Couch (London); and cost management by Turner & Townsend (London) 
• Ushida Findlay architects (London) in collaboration with landscape architect and masterplanner Grant associates (Bath), structural and services engineer ARUP (London), lighting designer Speirs and Major (London), quantity surveyor Davis Langdon and play design best practice and enabling by Play England (London)

The competition jury, chaired by Vicky Richardson, Director of Architecture, Design, Fashion, British Council will review the team submissions and the winners will be announced in December.

For further details of the project and the jury please see Latest Update on the dedicated competition microsite.

All press enquiries to the Olympic Park Legacy Company Media Team on +44 (0) 20 3288 1777, +44 (0) 7817 386 499 or email: pressoffice@legacycompany.co.uk