The Main Press Center (MPC) for the London Olympic Games formally opened on Wednesday and will start 24-hour operation to receive reporters from all over the world .

The MPC, located in the north-west corner of the Olympic Park, will host up to 6,000 accredited press and photographic media during the Games.

It will provide 31,000 square meters of office space across four floors of workspace for journalists, photographers, accredited non-rights holding broadcasters, as well as International Olympic Committee and London 2012 Organizing Committee (LOCOG) staff.

LOCOG chairman Seb Coe said: "Like the athletes competing at London 2012, the world's writers and photographers who will be based in the MPC are at the top of their profession. We will offer them state of the art facilities so they can tell the extraordinary stories that will come out of the Games."

The MPC will be open for 52 days across the Games, becoming a "home from home" for the world's media with state-of-the-art facilities. It has been designed to be as flexible as possible to accommodate a range of potential tenants and uses after the Games.