Aquatics Centre London Olympic Park
The Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park in east London was designed by the award-winning Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid and forms part of the gateway into Olympic Park.
The Aquatics Centre was used for the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming events at the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics.
Diving Pool
Statistics
The Aquatics Centre’s vital statistics are: completed in 2011 after three years of construction work, seating capacity 17,500 reduced to 2,500 post-Games, 160 meter-long and 80-meter wide roof done in a wave motif, three pools – a 50-meter competition pool, a 25-meter diving pool and also a 50-meter warm-up pool holding 10 million liters of water, creche and cafe.
Olympic logo windows
The windows of the Aquatics Centre have a steel design in the shape of the Olympic Rings. The Aquatics Centre is now undergoing extensive modification so it can be re-opened to the public in 2014.
Pool
Access – Getting There
Aquatics Centre
Olympic Park
Stratford
London
E20 2ZQ
The concourse of Stratford Station
Stratford Station in Stratford is the nearest station. It is on the Elizabeth Line (with connections to Paddington, Heathrow and Shenfield). Moreover, Stratford is on the DLR (with trains to Canary Wharf, London City Airport and also Stratford International). Furthermore, both the Central and Jubileee lines of the London Underground network run through the station. Also a mainline station, Stratford has services to Braintree, Colchester, Ipswich, Liverpool Street, Norwich as well as Southend. It is the 5th busiest station in Britain.
Additionally, the following London buses also stop nearby – the 25, 86, 158, 241, 308 and also the 425.
The award-winning, internationally-acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) designed the London Aquatics Centre in east London
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