The EDAW consortium together with Arup and Atkins has been chosen to design the Olympic Park and its associated infrastructure.
The consortium comprises of EDAW PLC, Buro Happold, Foreign Office Architects, HOK Sport, and Allies & Morrison.
It produced the masterplan that helped London win the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
Arup is a global firm of planners, designers, engineers and business consultants, and Atkins a multi-disciplinary consultant and design firm.
The team, led by Jason Prior, Principal of EDAW, will work with the Interim Olympic Delivery Authority to develop the Olympic Park masterplan.
They will design all the infrastructure elements that will make up the Park including utilities, waterways, drainage, landscape, roads and bridges.
The team will not design the Olympic venues or Athletes’ Village, which will be tendered separately.
Outline planning permission for the plans was granted on 1st October 2004, and further detailed planning applications will be required.
The winning team was announced today at the inaugural 2012 Business Summit by David Higgins, chief executive-designate of the Olympic Delivery Authority.
Higgins said: “Getting the site infrastructure and landscape right is a key task for the Olympic Delivery Authority over the next two years.
“It is not only critical for the Games but also to frame one of the most significant regeneration legacies for a generation.
“This will create a major new Park for London that after the Games will become a new quarter of the capital for Londoners to live, work and play.”
The Interim ODA is formally part of the London Development Agency until the Olympic Delivery Authority is established by the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Bill.
References: EGi News 24/01/06
