A fun snippet from the NLA's London 2012: Raising the bar for London's future development conference at Store Street this morning.
Kay Hughes, the Olympic Delivery Authority's project sponsor, said that among the design innovations being introduced at the park are a bridge and underlay the like of which I have not encountered before.
Apparently designer Jason Bruges has designed a bridge at the park that is 100m long.
On either side will be two pylons replicating one another. Each will include a button you can press that encourages you to "get, set, ready go". At which point the pylons begin to light up, becoming fully lit in exactly the time that it took Usain Bolt to shatter the Olympic record at the last Games.
I have visions of bridge walkers crashing over the bridge at high speed trying to out-do the Jamaican phenomenon.
Hughes said Bruges had similarly designed an underlay that mimicked the Olympics swimming records. But I have no idea how this could possibly work.
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