With the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, quickly approaching on Friday, ARCHITECT pulled together past stories discussing the design, architecture, and technology of previous Olympic events. Scroll through our coverage below to get your fix before this year’s international sports event:
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Esto Gallery: Forms of the Past Olympics
ARCHITECT inspects a few iconic arenas from past Olympics, as captured through the lenses of Esto photographers. Included are several from the Beijing Olympics, as well as a pair from Tokyo's 1964 games, and Calatrava's stadium from Athens in 2004.
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Jon Pack and Gary Hustwit’s New Book of Photography Showcases the Afterlife of Olympic Architecture
When the Olympics draw to a close, the shiny new venues suddenly go quiet. A new book chronicles the second lives of these buildings.
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This Sochi Olympic Building Façade Mimics Faces
Onlookers of the games can get their moment of fame, too.
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Advancing Technologies for Olympic Competitions
A researcher proposes that humans have reached maximum ability at sports events, leaving the advantage to sports technology and gear, reports Blaine Brownell.
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Beatbox Pavilion Exhibits Design’s Ascension at the Olympics
The Beijing Olympics launched the new era of designer Olympics, and this year's Olympic Games in London prove the trend with examples such as Asif Kahn and Permilla Ohrstedt's Coca-Cola Beatbox pavilion sculpture.
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Alternate Reality in Sochi Olympic Opening Ceremony
The Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony, designed for a televised performance, fulfilled Walter Benjamin's prediction that mankind would someday enjoy its own self-destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the highest order.
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Olympic Cauldron Celebrates Collective Olympic Experience
Thomas Heatherwick's kit-of-parts style shows itself in this year's Olympic Cauldron, made up of about 200 hundred petals that represent each participating country. It also furthers this Olympic's inclusionary theme.
See more coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang here.