NYC - Olympic Village Design Finalists:
Morphosis (Winner!)

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

Through its vision of global unity amidst the highest levels of human performance, the Olympic Movement is one of the primary institutions promoting peace, tolerance, and humanitarianism. The Olympic Village has an important symbolic role to play in public life both during the Olympic Games and afterwards. This Village will redefine the heart of the area by instilling values of diversity and cooperation to engender a sense of optimism, civicmindedness, and civic pride that will resonate long after the Games are over.
Our design for the Village establishes an iconic landmark and proposes an innovative vision for a 21st century urban environment that will redefine contemporary urban living through its commitment to sustainability, connectivity and interdependence. It is our intent to transform Hunters Point into a revitalized “new territory” that will leave an important legacy, or gift, to the city, while also providing the new generative tissue, or architectural DNA, that will continue to stimulate and inspire the development of the Queens area.

With 43 acres of open space reserved for both urban and natural parkland, this development’s greens will create the largest urban waterfront park in New York City. By working carefully and deliberately to sculpt land and building forms into a coherent relationship with the existing urban fabric and naturally advantageous site conditions, we will create a vibrant new neighborhood that will become an important stimulus for creative and optimistic development of the adjacent urban areas for years to come.