Design is for life, not just for the olympics

摘要

Whenever one hears Ministers or those associated with the 2012 London Olympics talk, you know that mention of legacy won't be long in coming. Whether to genuinely transform London's East End or simply to justify what by any standards is a huge spending spurge at a time of recession, the question of the long-term impact of the investment has underpinned the design and delivery processes of the forthcoming Olympic Games from the start. The recent Games in Beijing had a very different purpose, namely to firmly announce to the world (if we didn't already know it) the arrival of a new global super-power- China.