View the pictures
If London’s bid is successful, the 80,000-seat stadium will be built in Newham, East London, where the Olympic Park will be located. The computer-generated images, released yesterday, also show how the inside of the stadium would look after the Games. It would be turned into a 25,000-seat national athletics stadium, which would also house the London Olympic Institute, a new Olympic centre of excellence for elite and community sport.
London 2012 also released images of the interior of the aquatics centre, which will be built even if London’s bid fails.
Richard Caborn, the Sports Minister, said in a statement: “The design ideas for the proposed 2012 Olympic stadium are visionary and will not only transform the look and feel of East London, but will also provide an inspiration to the rest of the country that this kind of first-class design can exist in every city.
Advertisement
“This will be a showcase to the world of the innovation and talent in design that we have here in the UK, and will leave a legacy for future generations to enjoy.”