London 2012
A bigger splash
The Zaha Hadid-designed Aquatics Centre is set to become one of the Olympic Park’s most impressive and frequented sites. Amanda Allen talks to Arup about its lighting design for the arena
The challenge of champions
With work completed on the Olympic venues, attention has turned to other areas of Olympic Park lighting. Amanda Allen takes a look at one lighting installation designed to test the public
Wider angles
As lighting design adviser to the Olympic Delivery Authority, Speirs and Major’s remit was to take a broad view of the Park’s external lighting scheme. Ben Cronin talks to practice co-founder Mark Major
A walk in the Park
A broad and demanding brief covering energy efficiency, legacy uses and the welfare of bats governed Sutton Vane Associates’ strategy and designs for lighting the Olympic Park and Public Realm. Nick Martindale reports
Olympic vision
London’s newly completed velodrome presented a number of challenges from a lighting design perspective, not least the hefty requirements of high-definition television. Nick Martindale reports




