Olympic Pavilion
Atlanta, Georgia
Project Type: Temporary Event Pavilion
Opening: 1996
AD Scope: Acoustics, Audio
The Global Olympic Pavilion is the focal point of Centennial Park and the physical cornerstone of AT&T’s Olympic sponsorship during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. The pavilion was designed as a triad of structures including the twin Athlete’s and Media Centers as well as the conical Consumer Pavilion. Built to accommodate Olympic athletes and their families, house television broadcast studios and entertain park visitors throughout the Games, the Pavilion site emerged as the ‘living room’ and ‘walk-in-theater’ for the millions of people who came to enjoy the 1996 Summer Games.
With soaring truss arches of tensioned fabric reminiscent of Gothic Cathedrals, the Athlete’s and Media Centers were comprised of 90,000 square feet of relocatable architecture featuring state-of-the-art tension structure design, multi-story glass curtain walls and a 200 foot wide live video projection screen. Each evening, up to 250,000 people occupied Centennial Park to view the live performances of the outdoor stage and the center of the pavilions served as clear site lines to the live video images. Acoustic Dimensions provided design input on acoustics and sound systems within the highly reverberant Pavilion.
