[London] Olymbic Games Information Pavilion

The Olympic Games sees the biggest and most prestigious sporting event in the world being staged for the unprecedented third time in London next year, thus making London the first city in the world to host the modern summer games for a third time.

The aim of this International competition is to design a temporary, freestanding information pavilion within the world famous Trafalgar Square in the Heart of London during the 2012 Games.
The international ideas competition, hosted by [AC-CA], invited architects and architecture students to design a temporary, freestanding information pavilion within the world famous Trafalgar Square in the Heart of London during the 2012 Olympic Games

Although there are no plans for the Information Pavilion to be built, the competition aims to mainly encourage and reward design excellence at a small scale which integrates function, structure, details and the spirit of the games, as well as encourage the employment of sustainable design in all aspects of the proposal.

The jury included Matthew Lloyd (Architect, United Kingdom), Brigitte Lodolini (Architect/Lecturer, France), and Juan Carlos Sanchez Rodriguez (Architect, Colombia).

Here are the three winning concepts.

1st Place: Jose Carlos Cruz, Ines Guedes, Miguel Santos, Antonio Cruz (Portugal).

2nd Place: OH!SOM architects / Stephanie Durniak, Marie Fade, Baptiste Franceschi (France).

3rd Place: Dowling Duncan / Matthew Clare, Rob Duncan, Krista Mollion, Nikolay Grozev (United States).

 
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