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Article: Let the arts begin The Olympics won't remake Atlanta's architecture, but they may improve the city
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1996
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ATLANTA -- The idea behind my visit here was that I'd report on
the architecture of the Olympics. But it turns out there isn't any
architecture of the Olympics. In Atlanta they don't even call these
structures "buildings." They call them "venues." That's a tip-off
that nobody's even attempting memorable architecture. What is being
atttempted, though, is pretty interesting.
Some Olympic cities develop architectural ambitions, and some
don't. After seeing Atlanta, I've decided there are at least four
ways to be an Olympic city.
One: You can use the Games as an excuse to create monuments like
the sports palaces in Rome (by Pier Luigi Nervi) or Tokyo (by Kenzo
Tange), which rank ...