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The Smithsonian Institute is teaming up with the V&A Museum to create a collaborative permanent exhibition space at London’s Olympicopolis site. The plans, which date ... More

Tickets are now on sale for the world’s tallest and longest slide, which will open inside Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit London tower on 24 June ... More

While the Smithsonian is stalling on plans to move to London’s Olympicopolis site, the British Museum is looking at the possibility of a satellite site ... More

New images have been released of the ambitious Olympicopolis cultural development planned for London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. A selection of renderings and models show ... More

Both London’s Science Museum and Natural History Museum have confirmed they are in preliminary discussions about opening satellite sites as part of the multi-billion pound ... More

Plans are afoot to transform a swathe of industrial West London wasteland into a huge new urban area where “people will aspire to live, work ... More

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, home of the London 2012 Olympic Games, has confirmed plans to build the world’s tallest and longest slide inside the ... More

LDA Design has been selected to masterplan a university campus at London’s Olympic Park, featuring a museum, collections libraries and performance spaces. A team led ... More

Vinci Stadium, subsidiary of French venue operator Vinci Concessions, has signed a 25-year contract to operate London’s Olympic Stadium. Vinci’s existing stadium portfolio includes the ... More

A host of leading architecture practices feature on the shortlist – revealed today (12 December) – for the competition to design a culture and education ... More

Mayor of London Boris Johnson, has opened a major design competition for a new £400m (US$650m, €503m) educational and cultural quarter at the Queen Elizabeth ... More

With east London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to fully open to the public for the very first time tomorrow (5 April), Prince Harry and Boris ... More

A number of people working in the leisure industry have been given awards in the annual Queen's Birthday Honours List. Sculptor Anish Kapoor, designer of ... More

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is being redesigned into a large urban park that will be open to the public by spring 2014. The London ... More

Image: How the planned South Plaza area will look Plans for the new South Plaza at the post-Games Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park have been submitted ... More

Image: The construction process took 18 months ArcelorMittal Orbit, the sculpture and visitor attraction designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, has been unveiled at ... More

Image: The South Plaza area is to open at Easter 2014 Part of the North Park will be the first section of London's Queen Elizabeth ... More

Anglia Leisure chiefs have put their words into action and both successfully completed the challenges they had been set last month. As Tony Bass, the ... More

Paragon Entertainment, the York, UK-based attractions design, production and fit-out company, has announced it has completed the purchase of The Visitor Attraction Company (TVAC). TVAC ... More

The British Olympic Association (BOA) has revealed plans to build an Olympic Museum at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, as a permanent legacy from ... More

The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has announced that it has appointed operators to run the Aquatics Centre, Multi-Use Arena and ArcelorMittal Orbit after the ... More

The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has announced that it has appointed operators to run the Aquatics Centre, Multi-Use Arena and ArcelorMittal Orbit after the ... More

Private sector organisations have shown "extensive interest" in two of the first development opportunities for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park following the 2012 Games. Firms ... More

A new sculpture and public viewing platform sited adjacent to London's Olympic Stadium, which has been designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, has reached ... More