show construction on all of the big five venues - Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre, Olympic Village, Velodrome and International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre (IBC/MPC) - is now well underway.
The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Coordination Commission will visit the capital this week for a progress update. They last visited the site in May last year when construction had just started on the Olympic Stadium.
"It is clearly visible how much progress has been made on the site since the IOC Coordination Commission visited last year," said ODA Chairman John Armitt.
"The Olympic Stadium has changed the east London sky line, the Aquatics Centre roof is starting to take shape and the first residential blocks for the Olympic Village are out of the ground."
The latest set of aerial shots, taken earlier this month, show:
- Eight sections of the Olympic Stadium's roof in place and the concrete terracing slabs installed in the South and West stands
- The first section of the 2,800-tonne Aquatics Centre steel roof reaching across the temporary support trestles and the north-east roof supports reaching 12m out of the ground
- The pile caps of the foundations of the Velodrome
- The first residential blocks and lift shafts coming out of the ground on the Olympic Village site
- Piling rigs in the north of the IBC/MPC site which started construction work last Friday
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