West Hall Olympia, Hammersmith Road, West London Entertainment and Exhibition Redevelopment, Architecture Photos
West Hall Olympia in London
26 Aug 2021
Design: SPPARC
Location: Hammersmith Road, London, W14 8UX, England, UK

West Hall Olympia
First new building opens at £1.3bn Olympia redevelopment
West Hall Olympia, the first new building at Olympia designed by lead project architects, SPPARC, will reopen this week in a major milestone for the £1.3 billion redevelopment of West London?s iconic entertainment and exhibition destination.

Designed and delivered by SPPARC for YOO Capital and Deutsche Finance International (DFI), the revived West Hall features two new floors of large scale format, flexible exhibition space, with a new full height glazed facade. West Hall is the first newly renovated space at Olympia to reopen to operations since the development began.
An adjoining 4,400 person-capacity music venue, to be managed by global live entertainment company AEG Presents, is currently under construction on site with 25 percent of the steel superstructure erected. The new music venue adds over 5600 square metres of large scale format, flexible music space to West Hall, and is set to open in 2024 in line with the wider Olympia programme.

The exhibition space and music venue have been designed to function independently of each other, sharing only the use of a service lift. The two spaces are designed with acoustic insulation to allow the music auditorium freedom from t...