The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has released new aerial images of construction work on the Olympic Park showing the 'big build' firmly on track as the project enters its toughest year.

The images show the east London skyline being transformed by construction progress on the 'big five' venues – the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre, Olympic Village, Velodrome and International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre (IBC/MPC).

ODA Chairman John Armitt, said: "With construction work on the Olympic Park approaching its peak, the 'big five' venues are already becoming landmarks on the east London skyline and show how much progress has been made since the IOC Coordination Commission visited earlier this year.


"The external structure of the Olympic Stadium has been finished and the completion of the Aquatics Centre roof gives us an exciting glimpse of what will become the "gateway to the Games" and the Olympic Park’s most iconic venue. Work is also racing ahead in the north of the Park with the first residential plot of the Village structurally complete, the huge frame of the IBC/MPC in place and the striking architecture of the Velodrome taking shape."

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell said: "The Olympic Park has really started to take shape since the IOC Co-ordination Commission’s last visit with several of the key elements of the build now complete and venues like the Olympic Stadium and Aquatics Centre making a real impact on the London skyline.

"I am confident that we have the measures in place to make sure that this good progress continues, as we head into the most intensive and challenging phase of construction."

(CD/GK)