The London 2012 Olympics start today, and once again architecture is on the spotlight. With a big focus on reusable and adaptable structures, the lineup includes renowned architecture firms such as Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Hopkins Architects, Populous and Zaha Hadid Architects.
On this infographic we introduce you the iconic buildings of the Olympics since 776 B.C. until today! Follow our London 2012 Olympics coverage in its dedicated page. 
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Zaha’s aquatic center does NOT cost 6 billion. That is the total price tag of the games, not one building. It was considerably over budget but total price was 250-260 million pounds.
regardless its a zaha building, therefore a waste of money.
The total cost of the games is 11.6 billions Euros, 7.8 of them were used for transports.
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love women architects, have loved them and always will. i also love context…
What I like, is the outside presentation of Zaha Hadid Aquatic Center still be with render image, and not with the constructed result… I would like to know what happen for the project change so much.
haha, I love that only Zaha’s building took 2 diagrams to get the idea across. . .some really nice interior moments though
A lovely interplay of strange ideas all coming up to be such efficient sustainable art pieces of Architecture.I am impressed.
What? No Kenzo Tange? That Olympic marvel makes my spine tingle!
I like the idea of the article to show us the evolution of olympic buildings, the huge amount of money spent to build them stimulates creativity.
Mexico’s 1968 olympic stadium is missing badly, one of the most iconc, intelligent, landscape related, stadium on earth…
And ANZ stadium… well, is that really important?