In Pictures: The Orbit Tower In The Olympic Park

By · October 29, 2011 at 12:18 pm · 13 Comments · Miscellaneous · Report an error ·

On Friday,the ArcelorMilttal Orbit tower, the swooping red observation tower nestled between the main stadium and the Aquatics Centre, reached its full 114.5-metre height. Click through the gallery above to see how it looks.

The BBC has an interview with one of the architects who worked on the tower.

The structure won’t be finished until next year, but for now we can get a pretty good idea of how it looks on the east London skyline. It’s been one of the more controversial elements of the Olympic park, but now that it’s approaching completion, what do you think of it? Let us know.

Photographs by, in order: Dean, Dean, Andy Wilkes, Dean, Andy Wilkes, Andy Wilkes, O.F.E, Andy Wilkes, Andy Wilkes, Dean, , Surreydweller, Dean   

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  • Anonymous

    I love it. It’s the one fun thing about the Olympic Park that makes me feel I want to visit it…

  • David Cantrell

    It’s an ugly waste of money, just like the rest of the olympics

  • Pureedfruit

    Agree

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  • Anonymous

    I love the 80% of it Lakmir Mital paid for, much less keen on the bit Londoners are funding.

    • Dean Nicholas

      The £3.1 million from the LDA is tiny in the scheme of the Olympic budget, and the tower should be self-financing once finished. I wouldn’t have a problem with the cost if the thing weren’t so bloody ugly.

      • Anonymous

        It’s not so much the quantity of money, as to the all to common habit BJ has of committing to things that will be privately funded, only to have us step in when his fund raising doesn’t quite cover this bill. (Cable Car, Orbit, NB4L, Mayors Fund, Cycle Hire and still counting).

  • Dean Nicholas

    In Building Design, Olly Wainwright has done a wonderful demolition (not literally) of the tower’s scatalogical leanings: http://www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/arcellormittal-orbit-by-anish-kapoor-cecil-balmond-and-kathryn-findlay/5026971.article

  • luvinlife

    I hate to be critical but I went past it today and I thought it looked so, so ugly – for me, so much of the design for the Olympics has been disappointing.

  • Chatulkesi

    HalloIn Building Design, Olly Wainwright has done a wonderful demolition (not literally) of the tower’s  http://www.chatulkesi.com the l leanings

  • Fingers

    Ugliest thing I’ve ever scene. Offends my eyes to the point of almost having an accident on the A12….

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