The Olympic Delivery Authority, has announced the winning team chosen to design the Olympic Park and its associated infrastructure.

The team, chosen through a competitive tendering process, brings to the project an outstanding range of talent in areas including architecture, landscape design and engineering. They will play a key role in turning London’s Olympic vision into reality, as well as setting the framework for the regeneration of the Lower Lea Valley in East London.

The EDAW consortium, together with Arup and Atkins will form an integrated team to develop the design.

The EDAW consortium, which produced the award-winning masterplan that helped London win the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, comprises: EDAW PLC, Buro Happold, Foreign Office Architects, HOK Sport, and Allies & Morrison.

The team, led by Jason Prior, Principal of EDAW, will work with the Interim Olympic Delivery Authority to further develop the Olympic Park masterplan and begin to design all the infrastructure elements that will make up the Park including utilities, waterways, drainage, landscape, roads and bridges. The plans currently have outline planning permission, granted on 1 October 2004, and further detailed planning applications will be required.

The team will not design the Olympic venues or Athletes’ Village, which will be tendered separately.

David Higgins, Chief executive-designate of the Olympic Delivery Authority, said: ‘I am delighted to announce this appointment. I’ve only been in post a short time and I appreciate the work of the Interim ODA and London Development Agency team that managed the appointment process. It means I can get to grips with the critical priorities straight away.

‘Getting the site infrastructure and landscape right is a key task for the Olympic Delivery Authority over the next two years. It is not only critical for the Games but also to frame one of the most significant regeneration legacies for a generation.

‘This will create a major new Park for London that after the Games will become a new quarter of the capital for Londoners to live, work and play.’

Jason Prior, Principal, EDAW, said: ‘The plans that we worked so hard to put together for the bid are now going to be taken forward. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any landscape architect and I am absolutely thrilled.’

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