All Olympics archive articles
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AnalysisAssessing the legacy of London's Olympics
The architecture of the 2012 Olympics had to do more than provide an awe-inspiring home for the Games: it was meant to provide a foundation for the regeneration of a blighted area of the capital. Four years on, Ike Ijeh reports on whether it has succeeded
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FeaturesSydney's sustainable Olympic village unveiled
Back in January 1997, BD gets a sneak peak at the designs for the sustainable Olympic village for 15,300 athletes
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FeaturesGoing for gold
As the Olympic flame is kindled in Barcelona, architect David Howel-Evans sketches his impressions of the city and its games-related building programme back in June 1992
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FeaturesLos Angeles Olympiad 84
July 1984 -Derek Walker assesses the preparations, architectural and graphic, for the LA Games. Does the Hollywood tradition comprise the spirit of athletic competition?
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FeaturesThe Moscow game walks sideways
Ted Stevens takes a last look at Moscow’s Olympic facilities with “the crab” sports gym at Luzhniki back in May 1980
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FeaturesThe Moscow game
Ted Stevens dons his thermal underwear for an exclusive tour of the Moscow Olympics construction sites back in April 1980
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FeaturesMadness in Montreal
In 1976, BD’s man in Montreal, Peter Marsh, reported on the shambles surrounding the 21st Olympiad - a story of soaring costs, police investigations, fire risks, top security to ward off the terrorists, and a hectic, sometimes fatal, race against time
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FeaturesOverstepping the mark
Looking back at preparations for the Munich Olympics: designing the little things was costing the Muncheners a lot of money according to Peter Murray in this article from June 16th 1972