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The Vancouver Olympic Village is located in section 2A of Southeast False Creek. The site, a former industrial area which mostly consisted of parking lots, is located on the shoreline at the southeast corner of False Creek, north of First Avenue between Ontario and Columbia Streets.
BC Place Stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Olympic sites map For the 2010 Winter Olympics, a total of ten sports venues were used, seven in Vancouver (including BC Place), and three in Whistler. The majority of ice sport events were held in Vancouver, while Whistler, which normally serves as a ski resort, hosted the snow events. Six non-competition ...
The Birds was the first work of public art to be approved under the city's Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program. [1] [2] It was installed in Southeast False Creek Olympic Plaza, which served as the site of the 2010 Olympic Village, in April 2010. [1] [4] MacLeod was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film of the same name. She has said of ...
A hi-rise apartment building for athletes. (AFP via Getty Images file) ... The Swedish women's hockey team at the dining hall at the Olympic Village in downtown Vancouver in 2010. (Mark Ralston ...
Beijing 2008: Beijing 2008 Olympic Village Twenty-two 6-story buildings and twenty 9-story buildings (for Beijing Venue); Royal Park Hotel (for Hong Kong venue). Vancouver 2010: Vancouver Olympic Village and Whistler Olympic and Paralympic Village. Singapore 2010 (Youth): Campus of the Nanyang Technological University.
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Vancouver" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. ... 2010 Olympic Village; A. Aberthau House;
Where the Olympic athletes at the Paris Games spend their time when they're not competing
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXI es Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010 (Squamish: K'emk'emeláy̓ 2010), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the ...