BeachEast has returned to London’s Olympic Park taking up temporary summer residence in the space allotted to the £1.3 billion cultural quarter, or Olympicopolis, from 2018. 

As London hands over to Rio, a photograph from 2012 of my favourite temporary venue which was the short-lived 12,000 seat Basketball Arena by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.  

The Olympic Park reed beds in spectacular winter colour along the ‘wetlands’ stretch of the River Lea. 

I am working on a set of new photographs about the progress of the Leaway, a landscape project to open up a continuous walking route along the River Lea valley from the Olympic Park to the Thames. 

This derelict bridge crosses Bow Creek and once linked to a section of the Limmo Peninsular, now the Bow Creek Ecology Park. Ordnance Survey maps from the nineteenth century suggest that the bridge may have been a crossing point for the Great Eastern railway to a stabling yard that was near the current location of East India DLR station.