To mark the 25th anniversary of the most important sporting event in the city’s history, the Fundació Barcelona Olímpica presents Aquell Estiu del ’92 (The Summer of ’92), a dynamic space commemorating the Barcelona’92 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Remember, learn, interact, share, immortalise and enjoy a small part of the legacy of Barcelona being the Olympic host city and showcasing the city around the world.
An exhibition on sports photography opened last week in The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. From The Olympic Museum:
A six-month programme devoted to the art of sports photography, emotions and the crucial moment. You will never look at sports photos in the same way again.
What if photographing sport was a whole other art? The Olympic Museum in Lausanne is celebrating the 8th art from every angle with, at the top of the list, a major exhibition, “Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the present” organised by the Brooklyn Museum; a retrospective of “Rio 2016: through the lens of four photographers”; a “best of” selection of 20 photos from the IOC’s collections; and finally, a big weekend event devoted to sports imagery.
For more information visit the The Olympic Museum website.
Simultaneously with the exhibition, The Olympic Museum organizes a photo contest. Read more.
An exhibition on the work of Frei Otto (Architect Olympic Stadium Munich) opened last month in the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe, Germany:
Frei Otto. Thinking in Models
Frei Otto (1925-2015) is among the most internationally celebrated and innovative German architects of the 20th century and is a central figure in building the culture in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. In March of last year, he received the Nobel Prize for Architecture, the Pritzker Prize, for his work, which is the most highly recognized award for architecture in the world. On the occasion of this honour, the »Südwestdeutsches Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau« (saai) and the Wüstenrot Foundation are planning the biggest exhibition to date of the work of Frei Otto in cooperation with the ZKM.
Frei Otto. Thinking in Models
05.11.2016 – 12.03.2017
ZKM_Lichthof 8+9ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe
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An exhibition on Olympic stadiums opened last week in The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland:
From The Olympic Museum:
13 OCTOBER 2016 – 07 MAY 2017
STADIUMS PAST AND FUTURE
The exhibition addresses the stadium through the relationship it maintains, both with the city in which it stands, and with the various protagonists involved.
We are attempting to observe the role and impact of the stadium as a whole, not only from an architectural point of view.
An exhibition in three parts
The first zone briefly retraces the long history of stadiums since Antiquity, starting with their basic functions: to delimit the area of a sports competition and bring together an enthusiastic audience.The central part is focused on the Olympic Games London 2012, to show that a stadium is not only built for the 16 days of competition, but is also a project that runs for more than 30 years. Sustainable development and legacy are the key words here.
The Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016 editions of the Games will be examined to see what has become of the Olympic legacy, or what will become of it.
For more information visit the The Olympic Museum website.
As a major element of the 2012 Games legacy, The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will be transformed to create a new metropolitan district of the capital. A permanent display at NLA shows the changes that will be taking place as part of the wider Legacy Masterplan which is overseen by the London Legacy Development Corporation.
NLA
The Building Centre
26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
Opening Hours: NLA and the Building Centre
Monday to Friday: 9.30 am – 6.00 pm
Saturday: 10.00 am – 5.00 pmWe are closed on Sundays, Bank Holidays, Easter Saturday and for the Christmas period from 24th December to the first working weekday of January.