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

BP Showcase Pavilion. Mirrored cladding. Olympic Park, London E20.

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.

01 · Diagonal joints between the mirror panels, the angled edge cutting across a streaked sky.

Temporary pavilion, 2012

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

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 — 02 Concept sketch of the pavilion: the box drawn above a hatched, recessed 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

The built pavilion: one storey, about 300 square metres, mirror-clad above a green base.

The BP logo on the tilted face, the queue below mirrored in the panels.

Visitors crossing the park, reflected across the corner panels.

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.