The row over construction firms being "gagged" by Olympic marketing rules reignited this week as architect Wilkinson Eyre was given a "protest award" for its 2012 Basketball Arena. The practice, which has won the Stirling Prize twice, received the ironic prize at the 2012 New London Awards at the Guildhall in the City on Tuesday, after it emerged that its client the Olympic Delivery Authority had prevented it from entering the venue for other awards. Awards organiser Peter Murray said this showed the "draconian" impact of the no marketing rights protocol, enforced by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. News of the award came after prime minister David Cameron said last week that the government would act to ease the restrictions but not until the end of the year, prompting criticism that ministers were doing too little, too late to resolve the issue.
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