Magnificent sea beast

摘要

In January 2009, London mayor Boris Johnson initiated a competition, won by the ArcelorMittal Orbit, because he thought the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues lacked the 'wow factor'. But as he spoke, a minute's walk from the site of the Orbit (AJ 23.06.11), the steel skeleton of a 160-metre leviathan was already arching its powerful back, as if set to lash its tail and spring forward on its course across the Olympic Park.