With London 2012 nearly here, you’re going to see a lot of the Olympic Park and its amazing venues. Each day this week, find out how the venues will be used after the Games are over. Today, we look at the temporary venues: are they here today, gone tomorrow? Not according to our plans…
Temporary venues
The king of the temporary venues on the Park is the extraordinary 12,000 seat Basketball Arena.
Made of 1,000 tonnes of steel and covered in 20,000 square metres of a recyclable white PVC fabric, the Basketball Arena is one of the biggest temporary venues ever built – standing as tall as the Tate Modern.
Other temporary venues include the Water Polo Arena on the Park, Hadleigh Farm in Essex, for the mountain biking, and the Royal Artillery Barracks where the shooting competition will take place.
Throughout the Olympic building project, the idea was to build permanent venues only when absolutely necessary. Wherever possible the temporary venues will be dismantled and used elsewhere in the UK, enabling other communities to benefit.
