Kieran Long angers Olympic Park
Legacy Company
Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Kieran Long has written a damning summary of the Olympic Park Legacy Company‘s plans to regenerate the Olympic site following the games in 2012. In an article in the London Evening Standard Long states: “It seems the OPLC has no idea what the Olympic Park could be, apart from a leisure landscape for visitors and a recreation space for families.”
Subsequently on Twitter he commented “OPLC ‘not happy with the tone of my piece’ in today’s Evening Standard,” before inviting readers to make up their own minds.
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