Market Snapshot
  • U.S.
  • Europe
  • Asia
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
DJIA 15,303.10 +8.60 0.06%
S&P 500 1,649.60 -0.91 -0.06%
Nasdaq 3,459.14 -0.27 -0.01%
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
STOXX 50 2,764.29 -12.49 -0.45%
FTSE 100 6,654.34 -42.45 -0.63%
DAX 8,305.32 -46.66 -0.56%
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
Nikkei 14,612.50 +128.47 0.89%
Hang Seng 22,618.70 -51.01 -0.23%
S&P/ASX 200 4,983.50 -78.95 -1.56%

London Olympics' Conflicted Architecture: Gorgeous Gardens, Scary "Orbit"

By James S. Russell - 2012-07-10T14:42:12Z

Photograph by Anthony Charlton/London 2012 via Bloomberg

Company Symbol % Change
1 of 15

The Olympic Stadium

London's Summer Olympics site in East London, costing 9.3 billion pounds ($14.4 billion), has new architecture by Zaha Hadid and Peter Cook and an observation tower designed by Anish Kapoor. The buildings sit next to new transport links, Europe's largest shopping mall and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Advertisement