14 | NEWS | THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER 2026 CITYAM.COM OLYMPIA REBORN: INSIDE A £1.3BN MAKEOVER Bringing a Victorian building into the modern age was a labour of love, but the method was “deceptively simple”, Olympia CEO Michael Volkert O PENED in 1886 as a Victorian temple to spectacle – trade fairs, Vivienne Westwood’s first runway show, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix under the same cast-iron roof – Olympia has spent 140 years being remarkable and mostly invisible: wheeled out for the exhibitions and...
