Olympic parkland images revealed

The Olympic Park Legacy Company has unveiled five shortlisted designs for an area of parkland in the north of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

The OPLC launched a competition in July to design a playground and visitor centre with a cafe and seating terrace, along with large indoor space for community use.

Five teams have been shortlisted to develop a design - see shortlisted teams and images below. They will be judged by a panel of experts and the winning design announced in December.

A separate competition is being held to design one of London's newest public spaces that will welcome crowds to the south of the park.

Five concept designs for this competition are expected to be revealed next week.

OPLC chief of design Kathryn Firth said: "Legacy plans for the Olympic Park are more advanced than any other previous host Olympic city and this visitor centre and playground will be one of the first attractions added to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park."

The shortlisted teams for the North Park are:

• Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture (London) in collaboration with structural engineer Engineers HRW (London), services consultant OR Consulting (London) and quality surveyor Stockdale

• David Kohn Architects (London) in collaboration with landscape architects David Buck (London), Davies White (Surrey), consultancy Alan Baxer & Associates LLP (London) and project managers and cost consultants Jackson Coles (London)

• erect architecture (London) in collaboration with consulting structural engineers Tall engineers (London), service engineers Max Fordham (London), landscape consultants Land Use Consultants (London), artist and enabler Ashley McMormick (London), quantity surveyor Huntley Cartwright (Surrey) and play safety experts Children's Play Advisory Service (Coventry)

• The Landscape Partnership (London) in collaboration with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects (London), structural engineers Jane Wernick Associates (London), M&E engineers Skelly&Couch (London), and cost management by Turner & Townsend (London)

• Ushida Findlay architects (London) in collaboration with landscape architect and masterplanner Grant associates (Bath), structural and services engineer ARUP (London), lighting designer Speirs and Major (London), quantity surveyor Davis Langdon and play design best practice and enabling by Play England (London)