| Along with her work on Innsbruck Austria’s railway stations, Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid designed this ski-jump Schanze up in the in the Olympic Arena. A single 90m concrete pillar supports a wrapping flow of ramp and cafe, and a steel “fish belly” structure underneath it. This solution has been hailed as a triumph of mixed building technology for achieving no columns on the ramp itself by mitigating horizontal forces. It opened in 2001. |
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