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Plans to build a 'digital cloud' (that's right, you heard us) above the Olympic site have emerged. An international team of architects propose this whopping great 120m structure as part of the Mayor's competition to build an Olympic landmark.

The design would see a three-storey blanket of plastic spheres perching on top of a trio of stilts. The bizarre structure will be an observation deck and a display for digital information.

Amazingly, a company you may have heard of, called Google, are supporting the project while London's mayor Boris Johnson has shortlisted it as a possible tourist attraction and described the design as 'remarkable'.

The designers hope to raise money to build the futuristic structure with millions of 'micro-donations'. "It's really about people coming together to raise the Cloud," Carlo Ratti, one of the architects behind the design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told BBC News. "We can build our Cloud with £5million or £50million" He said, hopefully with a Doctor Evil pinky to the mouth.

The spheres could be used to display all sorts of info, like weather (rain-o-meter), spectator numbers, race results or even images of the Olympic Torch. Will it happen? Who knows. This cloud never did. Images after the jump.