The Olympic Park View Tube

The Olympic Park can today boast its first completed venue (assuming we're not counting an electricity substation as a venue). It's a viewing platform built from shipping containers, in the best Lea Valley tradition. The brightly coloured protuberance is hard to miss up on the Greenway, an old cycle path that cuts through the Park and provides the best opportunities to watch construction. The new building acts as a viewing point (slightly cringerly, they're calling it the View Tube), cafe and a community centre (presumably in legacy, right? - the only communities we've ever seen on the Greenway have beaks).

 

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In Pictures: The Olympic Park View Tube - Londonist

London 2012 aerial pictures show Olympic Park's changing skyline

 

The latest set of aerial photographs of the London 2012 olympic show just how far the building works have come along. Compare this aerial view of the Olympic Village site in April 2007...

London 2012 aerial pictures show Olympic Park's changing skyline - Telegraph

Games Monitor | debunking Olympics myths

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Our plans: ParkCams - London 2012

These are the latest webcam images taken of the Olympic Park site by our six ParkCams. The ParkCams will be showing progress taking place on the Park and will record images throughout the day and night

Our plans: ParkCams - London 2012

The Games thrilled. Now it's 'whatever'

Plans to scale back spending on the 2012 London Olympics is already losing the support of locals

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LONDON 2012

Series of images of the area prior to development.

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London 2012

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Olympics 2012

This will be the view from the Royal Box in the new Olympic stadium.

More to follow.