NYC - Olympic Village Design Finalists:
Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S - HLT

Following are the five finalists...click on any one below to view individual pages featuring information plus photos.

Main Olympic Village Design Page

• Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S - HLT
  Copenhagen, Denmark
• Morphosis
  Santa Monica, United States
• MVRDV
  Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects
  New York, United States
• Zaha Hadid Architects
  London, United Kingdom
  
  

The following text
is used with permission from: NYC 2012

The goals of the Olympic Movement—interaction between nations and individuals, sport as a catalyst for international and intercultural understanding and exchange—represent features that also constitute key elements of a vibrant, safe, diverse, and welcoming city.
Five linking themes—identity, accessibility, diversity, permeability, and sustainability—make up the core of the Olympic Village. A future city landscape emerges from a modern human environment based on ecological principles. A delicate balance between traffic, recreation, commerce, consumption, and human interaction is obtained. The Village contributes to its immediate and further surroundings as an icon viewed from Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as a generator of Queens West.

Tablelands with green public and semi-public spaces, activity, and city life characterize the outline. Parking and service facilities are covered underneath the hilly landscape, while business, vehicular traffic, and human activity are concentrated on multiple levels above ground. The tableland landscape creates varying and changing views and connections to its surroundings and provides easy access to and from Queens.

Water is the predominant element of the area, and its edges are publicly accessible. The western water edge is defined by a series of spaces with diverse recreational functions and attractions. The southern edge of the site has a park-like character, enabling extensive leisure use. Both water edges connect to the vibrant urban center defined by five twisting towers.

The sustainable development of the area is achieved by a number of environmental measures insuring not only no-impact consumption but also a cleaning function beyond the borders of the site. The diversity of the five quarters represent individual identities linked in a network—the Pier City, the Olympic Valley, the Olympus with five twisting towers, the Water City and the Olympic Forest—and they create an eventful Olympic Village and a strong and exciting New York neighborhood viable in the long term.