This row includes an outpost for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), a 550-seat theatre for Sadler's Wells, as well as a recording studio for the BBC and new campus for the London College of Fashion.
The project includes a huge new campus being developed by University College London next to the ArcelorMittal Orbit, as well as a row of buildings being developed by the LLDC on Stratford Waterfront, neighbouring Zaha Hadid’s London Aquatics Centre. It is also one of the few schemes that isn’t entirely housing led. ‘One of the big changes has been East Bank.’Įast Bank is a major area of development on the Olympic Park which remains some way off completing. She tells the AJ: ‘You don’t masterplan a scheme for nearly 8,000 homes, as it was, and hope to deliver it as envisaged 10-15 years ago. Lawes admits there have been a few significant changes made to the earlier plans. So who is right about the progress of this gigantic regeneration scheme? The politicians and City Hall bean counters or the body charged with managing the sites, overseeing the appointment of architects and fighting the fires caused by a global pandemic?Ĭonstruction work at East Bank in January 2021 London 2012 was meant to be different … there is now a real threat that the very issue that was meant to be different this time around will be repeated, and that the capital will be bearing the legacy of a costly, taxpayer-funded albatross, hanging around the neck of Londoners for decades to come.’Įven so, 15 years after construction work started on the park, and with less than four years before the LLDC hands back planning powers to the local London boroughs, the development corporation insists it is doing a good job at transforming what had been a post-industrial wilderness into a vibrant and prosperous new cityscape. The executive summary states: ‘Many former Olympic parks across the world have turned into derelict, costly disasters.
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