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Olympics
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Viewpoints
9 Stories About Design at the Olympics
With the 2022 Winter Games right around the corner, Metropolis revisits some of our favorite stories of Olympian design.
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Eugene, Oregon’s Hayward Field Puts Athletes on Center Stage
Portland-based architecture firm SRG Partnership has completely rebuilt the storied field.
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Q&A: Brence Culp and Nurit Katz on the Sustainability Vision for LA28
Built on a radical reuse strategy, the plans for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games will leverage Los Angeles’s existing sports venues and facilities.
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A Campus for the 2022 Asian Games Blossoms in Hangzhou
The complex sprawls over a 4.3 million-square-foot project site—with an 80,000-seat, lotus-inspired stadium at its center.
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Olympic Games—The Design Documents Over a Century of Olympic Visual Identities
The book shows how Olympic design encapsulates global politics and culture; in doing so, it serves as a de facto history of 20th-century graphic design.
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A New Landscape in Montreal Weaves Together Icons of the City’s Expo 67
Encompassing a Buckminster Fuller–designed geodesic dome and an Alexander Calder sculpture, the intervention shows how the city is rethinking its world’s fair treasures.
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A New Home for Baseball in Mexico City
Designed by FGP Atelier and Taller ADG, the new Diablos Rojos stadium is helping revive the city’s 1968 Olympic park.
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Will the Olympics’ Failures Spark A New Urban Paradigm for Rio?
Without intending to, the trials and tribulations of the Olympics have revealed a potential, and radical, way forward for Rio de Janeiro.
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The London Olympics Are Over. Now What?
Just as Danny Boyle’s cinematic representation of England’s transition from a pastoral, farming nation to the leaders of the industrial revolution, London’s East End has been going through a transition of its own i