Olympic Park is celebrating its tenth anniversary this weekend and Rowan Moore has published an account of its architectural legacy which is conspicuously more generous than that of Oliver Wainwright. I’ve done an analysis which will appear in the August/September issue of The Critic, which has the advantage or disadvantage of having been delivered before I had read theirs, but won’t appear online for a month or so. Yesterday I took a photograph of Stratford from the north (there is an area of nondescript land immediately north of Olympic Park).
One thing I will say, which I don’t say in the article, is that it’s very good for bicycling:-
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