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West Ham is assumed to be the only football club bidding to be a tenant, with Spurs no longer being interested. The Olympic Stadium will now remain in public ownership and the OPLC will try and find a range of tenants willing to pay rental on the stadium, which will be reduced to 60,000 seats at a cost of £50m drawn from OPLC funds. It is understood that an anonymous complaint to the European Commission has raised the prospect of an indefinite delay to negotiations. The Olympic Park Legacy Company board decided last night to abandon negotiations with West Ham and Newham and launch a new tender process because of fears that ongoing legal challenges could delay conversion of the stadium after the 2012 Olympics. The Daily Telegraph report today that London’s 2012 legacy planning has suffered a major blow with the collapse of West Ham’s deal to take on the Olympic Stadium amid concerns over the legal challenges to the club’s finance package with Newham Council. On we reported on the two major London football clubs bidding to re-use the Olympics Stadium after 2012. West Ham deal to take on the Olympic Stadium collapses
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London Olympic Stadium award – RIBA Awards winner, 2012 London Olympics Stadium photograph : LOCOG We have had to look at delivering something new.” I honestly think the days of the ‘white elephant’ stadium are in the past. “I came up with the term ’embrace the temporary’. Normally with projects of this kind architects are concerned with permanence but for us it was different because we were looking at a stadium which, initially at any rate, needed to be capable of being reduced in size to host community athletics events”. It may give a guide to countries who are thinking about how they can afford hosting future events. “It’s a different type of stadium which may provide a model for future stadiums. Philip Johnson, a principal at architects Populous – who is also the design team leader for the transformation of the Olympic Stadium to suit its post-Games legacy use – said: “We’ve produced one of the lightest stadiums ever built – a simple, de-mountable structure which has already won some awards before the Games have started”. London Olympic Stadium photos © Morley von Sternberg
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The project architect for the London Olympic stadium at a media briefing on the 2012 Olympic venues said that he hoped the building’s design would mark a new era in sporting events – and added that he never seriously feared it would be torn down, despite Tottenham Hotspur FC’s former plans to totally redevelop the site, reports the ‘insidethegames’ website. The London Olympic Stadium won’t burn after the Games it will trailblaze, says project architect. West Ham’s requirements for new seating and a roof has been roughly estimated at costing £200 million.ĭennis Hone, the LLDC chief executive, told the London Assembly that there have been no formal bids from an NFL American football franchise, although the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, and others had held “encouraging” talks about stadium management with NFL executives during a recent trip to the capital.Īlthough football was still among the front-runners to take up tenancy of the venue, Hone insisted a 2014 reopening was out of the question. The London Legacy Development Corporation is still deciding whether to accept any of the four bidders – West Ham, Leyton Orient, Formula One and the UCFB College of Football Business – seeking a 99-year lease on the £500 million stadium, some of which requires substantial modifications, including providing a roof to cover all of the seating, and possible retractable seating. The Olympic Stadium may not be ready for West Ham United or any other football tenant until the start of the 2016/17 season, Olympic Park officials have warned. Olympic Stadium reopening delayed until 2016 after modifications are required by potential bidders, report the Daily telegraph. London Olympic Stadium Redevelopment – West Ham United Football Club, London Olympics Stadium Building News, Construction, Start, Image, Architect London Olympic Stadium BuildingĢ012 Architecture, England, UK Sporting Arena Development