Athens Olympic Sports Complex Athens, Greece
N 38° 02.402 E 023° 47.029
34S E 744302 N 4213915
The revamped OAKA is the Athens Olympic Sport Complex, designed by Santiago Calatrava, winner of the 2005 AIA Gold Medal, one of the city's most important monuments that hosted the 2004 Olympic games.
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Location: Greece
Date Posted: 10/26/2011
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The Athens Olympic Sport Complex and is seen by many as a work of art in every respect, not only is it the main Olympic complex of the Greek capital, comprising of some of the most important sports facilities, but it is also one of the most important monuments of Athens after the Acropolis.
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Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was selected by the Organizing Committee of Olympic Games of Athens 2004 and the Ministry of Culture of Greece, in the midst of a great controversy, to redesign the Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA) with other important works.
The objective was reflected in the design of both the identity and history of the modern Olympic Games as the Greek capital, aided by the technological and aesthetic principles.
The architect explained that the project was his dream, to do something special and different from the headquarters buildings of the cities of the Games in the past, because Athens is the site of the beginning of the modern Olympic Games (1896) and Greece is the site where they were born and held in antiquity.
The work bears the unmistakable imprint of its architect, as can be seen in the bridges, especially the use of the famous "combs" made with bows and tensors.
Santiago Calatrava's project was conceived as a living work connected between each of the parties that compose it. Organic architecture is where the skeleton assumes great importance in the design and works as aesthetic elements and containers of life.
Please, follow the article quoted since it describes all different aspects of Calatrava's works on the OAKA.