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Photo of the Aquatics Center in London from the inside. You can see the wooden roof construction and a large swimming pool.
Photo of the Aquatics Center in London from the inside. You can see the wooden roof construction and a large swimming pool. ® Hufton+Crow

Client:
Balfour Beatty Group Limited, London (UK)

Completion of timber construction:
2011

Location:
London (UK)

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Aquatics Center, London

Visitors to the Olympic Games in summer 2012 were able to experience the elegance of the building from the inside: how the curved roof with its perfect soffit of 35,000 wooden slats floats above the pools and defines spaces, how the diving towers grow out of the base as concrete sculptures.

  • "I have seen many sports facilities in my life. But I was overwhelmed when I entered the London Aquatics Centre. Everything here is outstanding: the harmony, the quality, the innovation. It is a masterpiece."

    Jacques Rogge
    Chairman of the International Olympic Committee

Impressions

  • Photo of the Aquatics Center in London from the outside. You can see the wooden roof construction. ® Hufton+Crow
    Photo of the Aquatics Center in London from the outside. You can see the wooden roof construction. ® Hufton+Crow
  • Photo of the Aquatics Center in London from the inside. You can see the wooden roof construction and a large swimming pool. ® Hufton+Crow
    Photo of the Aquatics Center in London from the inside. You can see the wooden roof construction and a large swimming pool. ® Hufton+Crow
  • Photo of the Aquatics Center in London from the inside. You can see the wooden roof construction and a large swimming pool. ® Hufton+Crow
    Photo of the Aquatics Center in London from the inside. You can see the wooden roof construction and a large swimming pool. ® Hufton+Crow
  • Our services
    • Statics, planning
    • Manufacture, delivery and assembly of the wooden elements
    • Facade
  • Products used

    Laminated veneer lumber

  • Architectural office

    Zaha Hadid Architects, London (UK)

  • Engineering office

    ARUP Group Limited, London (UK)