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Article: Olympic rebirth: Berlin's Olympic Stadium, long neglected for its historical associations, has been imaginatively and sensitively revived as the showpiece for this year's World Cup.
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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The Berlin Olympic Stadium has always been an extraordinary and contentious challenge for politicians, architects, engineers and athletes. The present stadium was conceived and masterplanned by Werner March between 1926 and 1933 on the site where his father Otto March built a track for horse racing at Kaiser Wilhelm's behest in 1909. Some years later, March senior received a further commission to design the so-called German Stadium in the middle of his racing track. Scheduled to host the ultimately abandoned sixth Olympic Games of 1916, it was the largest sports arena of its day with a spectator capacity of 30 000.
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