A New Way To Think About Olympic Buildings?

“If hosting the Olympics was China’s way of shoring up its strength and visibility on the international stage, than the architecture was the look-at-me muscle flexing that brought together aesthetics and political will in a peculiar dance of neo-perestroika.” Future Olympic cities are taking a different approach. “The most promising approach looks at Olympics infrastructure as a reflection of what they really mean for a city: a splashy, but ultimately temporary event.”