01-04-2015
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park wins the 2015 Mipim Awards
The special award of the jury of the 2015 Mipim Awards 2015 has been assigned to London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the sports facility that contains Zaha Hadid Architects’s London Aquatics Centre, Anish Kapoor+Cecil Balmond’s ArcelorMittal Orbit and Populous’s Olympic Stadium.
The winners of the 2015 Mipim Awards were announced during the awards ceremony in Cannes on March 13, including the special prize of the jury for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
The park in east London was built for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics in London and contained the Olympic village and other sports facilities and various other constructions, including the London Aquatics Centre designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, and the Olympic Stadium designed by American architectural studio Populous.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park was designed by Erect Architects with LUC landscape architect, James Corner Field Operations and Make Architects.
The winners in the various categories of the 2015 Mipim Awards were announced on March 13, including the award for Best Shopping Centre, which went to the Markthal in Rotterdam by MVRDV.
(Agnese Bifulco)
Design: Architect: Erect Architects + LUC landscape architect, James Corner Field Operations with Make Architects
Location: London, UK
Images courtesy of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, photographers: Anthony Charlton for LLDC, David Poultney for LLDC
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