Westfield Stratford & Olympic Site

Following the great success of Westfield White City, the expansion of a new Westfield in Stratford city centre is deemed to be a big hit; the shopping centre will also be the site of 130,000 sq ft of offices. The new Westfield will be part of the urbanisation of Stratford City scheme on the Olympic Park in time for the 2012 Games.
Michael Gutman, Managing Director of Westfield UK/Europe, said: "We are creating part of a new city which will be home to offices, hotels, homes and leisure space... It is a critical part of the wider regeneration of the area."
Westfield Stratford City which also comprises 1.9m sq ft of retail and leisure which includes John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and a 12-screen Vue cinema is deemed to open on Sept 13th 2011. Westfield Stratford City will also be home to a new 267 bedroom Premier Inn hotel located next to the International Station and has consent for a further 350 bedroom hotel which is currently under negotiation. The development, known as Stratford Place, forms phase one of the 1.1m sq ft of offices that will eventually be built above and around Westfield's Stratford City shopping centre and is scheduled to open next year.
Dan Roberts at CB Richard Ellis said “This exciting new office development which will be the gateway to the London 2012 Olympics and provide a new commercial centre for London.”

Two of the main Olympic Centres that will be housed in Stratford would be the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre. The new Olympic stadium will house athletics, Paralympics and will hold 208 events and be a permanent additional to the urban landscape. Joining the Olympic stadium will be the aquatics centre which will house the events o f diving, swimming, synchronised swimming, Paralympics swimming and modern pentathlon the venue will be permanent with temporary extension during the games and will have 192 events at the time of the Olympics. The London 2012 Olympic stadium is the most sustainable ever built. With steel a resource in short supply, the build was made 75 per cent lighter in terms of steel use than other stadiums. It also features a low-carbon concrete, made from industrial waste and containing 40 per cent less embodied carbon than usual.
The top ring of the stadium was built using surplus gas pipes; a visual testament to London 2012's 'reduce, reuse, recycle' approach to sustainability. Steel and concrete use was further reduced by designing the lower section of the stadium to sit within a bowl in the ground.
While the construction on the aquatics centre began in 2008. It will be the ‘gateway’ to the Olympic park, with more than two-thirds of spectators expected to enter the Olympic park over a vast bridge that runs over the top of part of the venue.
The venue was designed by acclaimed international architect Zaha Hadid. It features a spectacular wave-like roof that is 160m long and up to 80m wide, giving it a longer single span than Heathrow terminal 5.