2012-03-14
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2012-02-07
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2012-01-19
2011-06-27
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SE1 reports that Giant Olympic rings to be attached to Tower Bridge for the Olympics (via, via).
Also:
The news comes following a deal announced recently by the Mayor of London between City Hall, City of London Corporation and London 2012 Sustainability partners EDF and GE to install a new energy-efficient colour-changing lighting system on Tower Bridge.
The new flexible lighting system would able enable evening lighting displays during the games such as the use of gold, silver and bronze lighting effects to mark sporting medal successes.
2011-02-12
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2011-01-21
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The 2016 Olympic Games identity is a logo that dances on the sand - a post on the Rio games identity at Eye Magazine.
It’s probably because I’m a fan of hard-edges, sharpness and blocks of colour, but I absolutely hate this logo, whereas the London 2012 design (which everyone else seems to hate) strikes me as pretty good.
2010-03-01
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Closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics: “Dancers in ‘zorbs’ make their way across the arena”. (Photograph by Jerry Lampen, Reuters.)
2009-11-03
Permanant changes to London for 2012 Olympics
PDF, via bustops.
It claims that “13,300 new hotel rooms will be available throughout London by 2012”, yet it lists the Savoy Hotel, which is a bit cheeky, as that’s been there for a hundred years (although, admittedly, it is closed at the moment).
Some of the business buildings listed (oddly, under “leisure” seem a little optomistic. It also promises that Tate Modern 2 (apparently its official name; how terrible) will be “ready in time for the 2012 Olympics.”. If I were one for claim chowder, I’d be archiving a copy of this to drag out in 1000 days.
