伦敦奥林匹亚文化街区 | Heatherwick Studio、SPPARC

For 140 years, this site has been a showcase for the arts and commerce. While carefully restoring the site’s heritage, the studio’s new scheme reimagines Olympia as a creativity-led district. Crowned with a curved glass canopy, an elevated public realm connects new theatre and music venues, hotels, offices, restaurants, a school and the historic exhibition halls.  

140年来，这里一直是艺术和商业的展示中心。Heatherwick Studio的新方案在精心修复其历史风貌的同时，将奥林匹亚重新构想为一个以创意为主导的区域。弧形玻璃顶棚覆盖着高架公共空间，将新建的剧院和音乐厅、酒店、办公楼、餐厅、学校以及历史悠久的展览馆连接起来。

Heatherwick studio developed the masterplan for this £1.3 billion project, as well as designing in detail selected buildings and its new rooftop route of streets, squares and gardens. Unusually for a project of this scale and complexity, the programme also had to ensure the site could remain open throughout construction.

Heatherwick Studio负责制定这项耗资13亿英镑的项目的总体规划，并详细设计了部分建筑及其全新的屋顶街道、广场和花园路线。与同等规模和复杂程度的项目不同，该项目还必须确保施工期间场地能够保持开放。

Our starting point for the masterplan was the idea of public spirit. When it opened in 1886, Olympia aimed to bring the marvels of the day to Londoners. The studio’s designs have been guided by this same ethos of opening up Olympia to everyone.  

我们总体规划的出发点是公共精神。奥林匹亚于1886年开放，旨在将当时的奇观带给伦敦市民。工作室的设计理念始终秉持着向所有人开放奥林匹亚展览中心的宗旨。

The venue’s expansion over the decades had meant that its 14-acre site (the size of 8 football pitches) had become inaccessible to people without an event ticket. The first step to counter this was the creation of an underground logistics centre, which has allowed Olympia Way – an arrival point once clogged with lorries and Portacabins – to become an attractive pedestrian-first street.  

几十年来，随着场馆的不断扩建，其占地14英亩（相当于8个足球场大小）的场地已变得难以进入，没有门票的人根本无法进入。为了解决这个问题，首先建造了一个地下物流中心，使得曾经被卡车和活动板房堵塞的奥林匹亚大道焕然一新，成为一条以行人优先的宜人街道。

From Olympia Way, visitors are welcomed up escalators and steps that rise between the exhibition halls. Here a new rooftop street gives sweeping views of the city. Surrounded by bars, restaurants and plant-filled terraces, this social space is covered by a glazed canopy – a barrel-vaulted structure that echoes the roofs of the Grade II*- and Grade II-listed Grand and National Halls. The canopy’s 520 glass panels fan outwards, beckoning the public upwards, while sitting lightly within the historic architecture.

从奥林匹亚大道出发，游客可以搭乘自动扶梯和台阶，拾级而上，前往各个展厅。在这里，一条全新的屋顶街道可以饱览城市全景。街道周围环绕着酒吧、餐厅和绿植环绕的露台，这片社交空间上方覆盖着玻璃顶棚——一个筒形拱顶结构，与 Grade II*和 Grade II 保护建筑——大礼堂和国家礼堂的屋顶遥相呼应。顶棚的520块玻璃面板呈扇形向外展开，仿佛在召唤人们向上攀登，同时又与历史建筑和谐共存。

Rather than mimic Olympia’s Victorian design, the new buildings are inspired by its soulful qualities of light, depth, texture and rhythm. The pleated glass pattern of the Great Hall’s roof is a motif reflected in the canopy as well as the exteriors of the British Airways Theatre, citizenM hotel and Olympia Central offices – buildings whose design was led by Heatherwick Studio. You can also find its zigzag presence in the human-scale details the studio has crafted, like the wooden handrails.

新建筑并非模仿奥林匹亚的维多利亚式设计，而是从其光线、深度、质感和韵律等充满灵性的特质中汲取灵感。大厅屋顶的褶皱玻璃图案不仅体现在顶棚上，也出现在英国航空剧院、citizenM酒店和奥林匹亚中心办公楼的外立面上——这些建筑的设计均由Heatherwick Studio主导。您还可以在工作室精心打造的人性化细节中找到这种锯齿状元素，例如木质扶手。

The highest structure, Olympia Central’s 550,000 sq ft of office space, benefits from stepped architecture. That reduces the building’s visual impact from street level, as well as creating a series of large outdoor terraces – up to about 100m in length – which have spectacular vistas.  

最高的建筑——奥林匹亚中心拥有55万平方英尺的办公空间，其阶梯式建筑设计使其受益匪浅。这种设计不仅降低了建筑从街道层面的视觉冲击力，还打造出一系列长达约100米的宽敞户外露台，可饱览壮丽景色。

At five storeys high and with 1,575 seats, the British Airways Theatre is the largest new purpose-built theatre in London in 50 years. Its entrance façade of glass appears almost like stage curtains pulled apart. Elsewhere across Olympia, you discover the British Airways ARC music venue, the Wetherby Pembridge school and the Hyatt Regency hotel, new structures for which SPPARC was the lead architect.

英国航空剧院高五层，拥有1575个座位，是伦敦50年来新建的最大专用剧院。其玻璃幕墙入口宛如拉开的舞台帷幕。在奥林匹亚的其他区域，您还可以看到英国航空ARC音乐厅、韦瑟比彭布里奇学校和凯悦酒店，这些新建筑均由SPPARC担任首席建筑师。

With its buildings opening in stages across 2026 and 2027, this new cultural district has a projected footfall of 10 million people every year. It’s a place where both culture and community can thrive.  

该文化区内的建筑群将于2026年至2027年分阶段开放，预计每年将吸引1000万游客。这里将成为文化与社区蓬勃发展的沃土。

Client：Yoo Capital and DFI

Size：2.5 Acres

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