Olympics
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Grand Palais restoration in Paris through the lens of champion fencer Enzo Lefort
As Paris’ Grand Palais prepares to reopen following extensive restoration by Chatillon Architectes, we visit the site with champion fencer and photographer Enzo Lefort, who documented the space ahead of the Olympic Games 2024
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Dip into the Paris pools and swimming culture enriching the 2024 Olympic Games
Paris pools, in the Olympics and beyond, have inspired fun, wellness and a love of sports in the French capital
By Ellen Himelfarb Published
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Paris 2024 and Chaumet unveil Olympic and Paralympic medals
The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic medals designed by Chaumet are not just emblems of champions but are storytelling jewellery
By Minako Norimatsu Published
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Inside Mathieu Lehanneur’s new Paris studio
We catch up with French designer Mathieu Lehanneur, creator of the Paris 2024 Olympic torch, as he moves into a new HQ and refocuses his design studio
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Olympic Torch design by Mathieu Lehanneur unveiled
The Olympic Torch and Paralympic Torch design for Paris 2024 was conceived by Mathieu Lehanneur as an expressive object
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Omega's Olympic record of timing inventions
By Caragh McKay Last updated
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The Barking Bathhouse by Something & Son, London
By Alex Moore Last updated
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Omega timekeeping: Olympic-standard timing over the years
By Caragh McKay Last updated
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Tunnel vision: Carsten Höller adds record-breaking slide to ArcelorMittal Orbit
By Florence Waters Last updated
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Olympic gold: a new exhibition programme in Lausanne celebrates the sporting stadium
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Moulding gold: in the studio with the Olympic and Paralympic medal makers
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Tom Pigeon creates prints for Team GB ahead of 2020 Olympics
Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, Tom Pigeon has designed prints for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team, inspired by classic posters from the 1960s and 1970s and Russian constructivist art
By Alyn Griffiths Last updated
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Step inside Asif Khan’s dark pavilion for the Winter Olympics
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Robots track Tokyo 2020 Olympic highlights to create public art
In The Constant Gardeners, Jason Bruges Studio’s new public art installation, four robotic ‘gardeners’ use live data from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to create striking artworks
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Japanese architecture and the Olympics: pavilions pop up
A family of architectural pavilions by Japanese architects and artists has appeared in the urban cityscape ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, courtesy of Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo and the Watari-um art museum
By Danielle Demetriou Published
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Janne Tuunanen captures modernist architecture of renovated Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Photographer Janne Tuunanen captures the sharp modernist architecture of the recently renovated Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Finland in his latest series
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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DS+R-designed US Olympic and Paralympic Museum opens in Colorado
Diller Scofidio + Renfro reveals its latest cultural offering, the dynamic US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in America's Colorado Springs
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Going for gold: Nike reveals its innovations for the Rio 2016 Olympics
By Pei-Ru Keh Published