The sheer scale of the 2012 Athlete's Village in the Lee Valley is the first thing that hits you. Perhaps it's because we are used to the forms of blocks and towers of housing built in the 1960s and 70s, interspersed in great tracts of functionless landscaping. But this looks and feels different; the sense is that this is urban architecture straight out of France or Spain — as if a new housing model has been imported for the Olympics. But whatever the
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