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Aesthetics and Infrastructure at London 2012
July 31, 2009
By Vicky Richardson
We are still three years away from the London Olympics and already it looks like the buildings housing the infrastructure will be the best architecture to come out of the event.
While the drama of Zaha Hadid’s pool is drained away by continual value engineering, the electricity substation by UK practice Nord will be completed this summer and will start functioning in 2010. It will set an impressive standard. A beautifully textured brick box that hides transformers and coolers; suited both to the semi-industrial context of the Lea Valley and to the architecture of London’s Victorian parks.
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