Olympic Park Legacy Company Appoints New Chief of Design for Olympic Park

The Olympic Park Legacy Company has appointment of Kathryn Firth as its new chief of design – a role that will see her head the company’s design team and will shape the future of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Firth, a Harvard graduate, has held senior positions at PLP Architecture, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and the LSE Cities Programme during her 25 years in the industry.

Her work at the OPLC will see her tasked with the Legacy Communities Scheme – a masterplan to develop the Park over the next 20 years, as well as improving the fringe areas around the Park through a series of community-focused design projects.

Firth said: “Being able to influence one of the most important regeneration projects of the century is a truly extraordinary opportunity for any urban designer’.

‘The standards of design that we set out now will set the tone for all future development on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It is vital that this area is seen as a blueprint for 21st century living and loved by all those who live, work and visit’.

Firth will also be overseeing a major competition to create London’s newest public space sitting between the Olympic Stadium, the ArcelorMittal Orbit and the Aquatics Centre