# BP Showcase Pavilion. Mirrored cladding. Olympic Park, London E20. > A six-week cladding package for Specialist Structures on the mirrored envelope of BP's temporary showcase pavilion in the London 2012 Olympic Park. > HTML version: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/ The team behind Dmitro Development carried out the cladding works on the mirrored envelope of BP's temporary showcase pavilion in the London 2012 Olympic Park, a six-week package for Specialist Structures. ![Mirror-finish cladding panels reflecting a blue sky and streaks of cloud on the angled facade of the BP Showcase Pavilion, London 2012 Olympic Park](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park-building-contractors-london-fallback.jpg) 01 · Diagonal joints between the mirror panels, the angled edge cutting across a streaked sky. Temporary pavilion, 2012 Mirror-finish cladding panels with thin dark joints running diagonally across an angled face of the BP Showcase Pavilion, reflecting a blue sky and bands of cloud. The team behind Dmitro Development carried out the pavilion's cladding works as a six-week package for Specialist Structures in the London 2012 Olympic Park. ## At a glance - **Package**: Mirrored envelope cladding - **Duration**: Six-week package - **Client**: Specialist Structures - **End client**: BP - **Location**: Olympic Park · London E20 - **Year**: 2012 The team behind Dmitro Development carried out the cladding works on the BP Showcase Pavilion for Specialist Structures, which supplied the adaptable temporary-building system the pavilion stood on. The six-week package formed part of the building's reflective, panelised envelope, in place for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in summer 2012. [Part of: Cladding and facade packages](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/facade-cladding/) ## Conceived as a floating mirrored box. AndArchitects designed the pavilion with KBW Design. Its queue-facing face was inclined so that visitors saw themselves, the sky and the neighbouring venues in it. ![Pen concept sketch of the BP Showcase Pavilion, an angular box above a hatched, recessed base with figures around it](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park-pen-concept-sketch-angular-box-hatched-fallback.jpg) 02 · Concept sketch of the pavilion: the box drawn above a hatched, recessed base. A pen concept sketch of the BP Showcase Pavilion: an angular box drawn above a recessed, hatched base, with figures in the open ground around it. ## 03 · The built pavilion: one storey, about 300 square metres, mirror-clad above a green base. ![The BP Showcase Pavilion in the Olympic Park, its mirror-clad upper box reflecting the crowd and trees above a green base, visitors in white T-shirts in front](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park-mirror-clad-upper-box-reflecting-crowd-fallback.jpg) The BP Showcase Pavilion in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Games: a compact, single-storey building of about 300 square metres, its upper box clad in mirror-finish panels above a recessed green base, with the Games crowd in front. ## 04 · The BP logo on the tilted face, the queue below mirrored in the panels. ![The BP logo on the pavilion's tilted mirror face, which reflects trees, the skyline and a large crowd, with visitors queuing below](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park-logo-tilted-mirror-face-reflects-trees-fallback.jpg) The pavilion's inclined, queue-facing elevation, with the BP logo fixed to the mirror panels and the visitors queuing below reflected in them. ## 05 · Visitors crossing the park, reflected across the corner panels. ![Black-and-white view of the pavilion's mirror-clad corner, the panels reflecting visitors walking across the park beneath a cloudy sky](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park-black-white-mirror-clad-corner-panels-fallback.jpg) A black-and-white view up the pavilion's corner: the crowd crossing the Olympic Park is reflected across the mirror panels, the horizontal joints running through the image, with cloud on the return face. The pavilion ## Built for one summer, and to come down again. The brief asked for low embodied impact, controlled waste, responsible sourcing and a building designed for deconstruction and component reuse. Inside, BP ran its Fuelling the Future show in a rotating 14-metre cyclorama. The pavilion welcomed about 48,000 visitors over 26 operating days of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Design Council's judges noted detailing to a standard associated with permanent construction. Both recognitions below belong to the project and its design team; the team's own contribution was the cladding package. - Design Council Beyond 2012 Award, Architecture and the Built Environment: 2013 - Museums + Heritage Sustainability Award, shortlisted: 2013 ## 06 · The front elevation at Games time, the whole face filled with the concourse and its crowd. ![The pavilion's front elevation, its inclined mirror face reflecting the crowded concourse, with a Union flag waved in the foreground and visitors in front of the green entrance base](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park-front-elevation-inclined-mirror-face-reflecting-fallback.jpg) The pavilion's front elevation during the Games. The inclined mirror face reflects the concourse and the crowd in front of it, with a Union flag waved in the foreground, and reduces the building to a band of reflected park above the green entrance base. ## 07 · The sharp top corner from below, with the BP logo on the panels. ![The pavilion's sharp mirror-clad corner seen from below against a clear blue sky, the BP logo fixed to the panels](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park-sharp-mirror-clad-corner-against-clear-fallback.jpg) Looking up at the pavilion's sharp top corner against a clear sky, with the BP logo fixed to the mirror panels and the panel joints running across both faces. ## 08 · A regular grid of straight joints, the panel edge lost in the cloud it reflects. ![A grid of mirror-finish panels with thin dark joints at an angled edge of the pavilion, reflecting white cloud and blue sky](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park/bp-showcase-pavilion-olympic-park-grid-mirror-finish-panels-thin-dark-fallback.jpg) Close view of the mirror-finish panels at one of the pavilion's angled edges: horizontal and vertical joints in a regular grid, the panels reflecting cloud so closely that the edge of the building almost disappears into the sky. ## BP Showcase Pavilion, clad by the team. 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