UK - London 2012 Olympics - Westfield and Olympic Park aerial landscape

An aerial landscape of Westfield City shopping centre (right), Stratford rail station hub (c) and the Olympic Park venues to the left. Home and arrival point during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The foreground artwork called 'The Shoal' is made up of around 100 titanium clad 'leaves' mounted between 15 and 19 metres high on metal posts. Worth £13.5m, the Shoal is part of The Stratford Town Centre Public Realm Project, designed and manufacturered using 3D technology. Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The station is served by the National Rail services National Express East Anglia, London Overground and c2c, by London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines, and by the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). Stratford is in London Travelcard Zone 3, and Network Rail owns the station.

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An aerial landscape of Westfield City shopping centre (right), Stratford rail station hub (c) and the Olympic Park venues to the left. Home and arrival point during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The foreground artwork called 'The Shoal' is made up of around 100 titanium clad 'leaves' mounted between 15 and 19 metres high on metal posts. Worth £13.5m, the Shoal is part of The Stratford Town Centre Public Realm Project, designed and manufacturered using 3D technology. Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The station is served by the National Rail services National Express East Anglia, London Overground and c2c, by London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines, and by the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). Stratford is in London Travelcard Zone 3, and Network Rail owns the station.