Aquatics Centre
The Swimming venue was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid in 2004 before London won the bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The venue has a capacity of 17,500.
The complex has a 50m competition pool, a 25m competition diving pool and a 50m warm-up pool. The 50m pool is 3 metres deep in order to be fast.
The diving pool has platform boards at heights of 3m, 5m, 7.5m and 10m and three 3m springboards.
For the television coverage of the Olympics, the pools are also equipped with innovative cameras in order to present the action from multiple angles.
Following the conclusion of the Olympics the two wings will be removed and the swimming pools will be made available to the public.