QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK, CRISTINA PORTILLO TORRES SEES IT

The layout task for the green location that set up the main item for the Olimpia Games in London 2012 has actually been identified with the Internacional Landscape Honor Rosa Barba.

Cristina Portillo Torres visited the park, created by Hargreaves Architects and also she believes is the largest park constructed in Europe. The design of the area sums up centurias of british landscape tradition, the truth of the postindustrial brownfields and the development in sustainability as well as resiliency, with the goal of producing a brand-new kind of park for the 21st century.

It is focused on the repair of the river as well as it includes an ecological area to the north and a festive park to the south, along with the Olympic Gardens, influence wear the various countries joining the Olympic Gamings. The environmental park of the north transforms the old the old industrial canal in a natural corridor, complying with the river meander, with fields and wetlands, huge locations with lawn to laydown and also rest and sculptural banks. The south park produces soft balconies and also consists of the Olympic Gardens, an abundant and colorful homage to the countries unified to commemorate the Gamings.

The Makeover Strategy stablished the style for the post adjustment after the Gamings, replacing the short-lived sport installments and pavimentation for a leisure program consisting of a brand-new cycle route as well as an outdoors space for efficiencies.