Glittering array of talented architects on Crystal Palace exhibition centre shortlist

They include Olympics aquatic centre designer Dame Zaha Hadid, in collaboration with artist Sir Anish Kapoor, and London Eye architect Marks Barfield.

Space: inside the building Others on the list of six include David Chipperfield, who designed the River and Rowing museum in Henley and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the architect behind Waterloos international station and the Eden Project in Cornwall.

Rogers Stirk Harbor, the new firm of Millennium Dome designer Richard Rogers, and Young Vic architects Haworth Tompkins also feature.

Green: the exhibition centre will sit at the top of Crystal Palace Park in south London The winner will be tasked to design the new 500million Crystal Palace in the spirit, scale and magnificence of the original. The new exhibition space, which could create 2,000 jobs, will sit at the top of Crystal Palace Park in south London.

The original was a huge iron and glass building erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was rebuilt in south London three years later but was destroyed by fire in 1936.

Plans: how the park could look Chairman of the Chinese developers, ZhongRong Group, Ni Zhaoxing, said: The outstanding shortlist demonstrate the wealth and diversity of design talent inspired by the challenge of rebuilding the Crystal Palace in the spirit of the magnificent original.

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Glittering array of talented architects on Crystal Palace exhibition centre shortlist