EDAW team to prepare masterplan for London's 2012 Olympic bid

A team led by EDAW - in partnership with HOK Sport, Foreign Office Architects, and Allies and Morrison - has beaten off a challenge from five other teams of architects to prepare the
masterplan for the proposed London Olympics in east London's Lower Lea Valley.

Consortiums headed by Lord Foster, the man behind City Hall, and Lord Rogers, the Mayor of London's advisor on architecture, the Swiss architects who created the Tate Modern, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, were the unsuccessful rivals. 

The prestigious job is a crucial component of London's 2012 Olympic Bid. The masterplan is to provide the 'design blueprint' needed to transform one of the poorest parts of the UK into a new development capable of staging one the greatest sporting shows on earth.

EDAW will now begin the task of drawing up a masterplan which will include the venues and infrastructure needed for London to deliver the Games. It will set out the location of the key Olympic facilities, and their relationship with transport, public spaces, the local ecology and landscape.

The masterplan must be ready in time for London's response to the International Olympic Committee questionnaire in January 2004.