Project Description

In 2017, Olympia London was purchased by a consortium of investors, led by Deutsche Finance and Yoo Capital. Inspired by the venue’s history and original purpose, their vision for the space would see Olympia London being transformed into a world leading arts, events, entertainment, and experiential district. The site is located in west London at the junction between Hammersmith Road and Olympia Way. Once complete, the proposed £1bn Future Olympia development will provide extensive exhibition space across the site, to anchor the development and its hotels, offices and theatres. RBG is the engineer on main works which include six buildings; West Hall, G-Gate Theatre, Central Office, National Hotel, Multi Storey Car Park (MSCP) and Public Realm. Both West Hall and G-Gate contain music venues above large-span exhibition space. For West Hall, the dynamically driven design has further challenges added from existing retained foundations. Besides complex design details, West Hall also has an intense design programme of three months from scheme to construction for the primary steel packages. G-Gate and Central share a common basement and podium up to Level 02. To reduce programme and provide valuable logistic space, Central will adopt top-down construction with jump-start core and superstructure. The steel frame sees challenging design to support the structure overhanging Grand Hall and with restricted column layout due to carpark in the basement. Large scale transfer structures are introduced to overcome this with considered deflection performance. The new National Hotel is a three-storey 145-room hotel over the existing annexe building to National Hall. The existing annexe building is formed of a basement, ground and first floors, which was constructed in 1923 and is Grade II listed. The proposed hotel sits over the existing building and will be structurally independent from existing structures