A City at Play: Rio de Janeiro on the Eve of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games

• Published in: Architectural design Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 28 - 39
• Main Author: Nobre, Ana Luiza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.05.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: 2007 Pan American Games; 2014 FIFA World Cup; AECOM; Arena do Futuro (Arena of the Future); Baixada Fluminense; Barra da Tijuca; Bernardes+Jacobsen Arquitetura; Bia Lessa; Brasília; cable car; Cais do Valongo (Valongo Quay); Caixa Econômica Federal; Cantagalo favela; Carla Juaçaba; Certificado de Potencial Adicional de Constução (CEPAC - Certificate of Potential Additional Construction); Complexo do Alemão; Constaninos Doxiadis; Construction; Copacabana; Crystals; Curitiba; Deodoro; Deutsche Bank; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Education; FIFA Confederations Cup and World Youth Day; Foster + Partners; Games; Guanabara Bay; Ilha Pura; Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional (IPPUR - Institute of Urban and Regional Planning and Research); Instituto Raízes em Movimento (Institute of Roots in Movement); International Broadcast and Main Press Centres; International Olympic Committee (IOC); Ipanema; Jaime Lerner; Jorge Mario Jáuregui/@telier metropolitano; Kohn Pedersen Fox; Lagoa de Jacarepaguá; Legacy; Lopes Santos Ferreira Gomes/AndArchitects; Lucas Faulhaber; Maracanã stadium; Maurá Square; Maurá Square, Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow); Mayor Eduardo Paes; Morar Carioca (Carioca Living) project; Morro de Providência; Museu da Imagem e do Som (Museum of Image and Sound); Museu de Arte do Rio (Rio Museum of Art); Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow); Observatório das Favelas (Observatory of Favelas); Palacete Dom João; Paralympic Games; Parque Madureira; Pavilhão Humanidade (Humanity Pavilion); Perimetral; Petrobras; Plano Popular da Vila Autódromo (People's Plan for Vila Autódromo); Porto Maravilha; Porto Novo Consortium; President Dilma Rousseff; Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC - Growth Acceleration Programme); Rio de Janeiro; Rio+20; Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development; Roberto Burle Marx; Rocinha; Santiago Calatrava; Transbrasil; Transcarioca; Transoeste; Transolímpica; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF); Universities; Urban Age Award; Vila Autódromo; Vila da Mídia e de Árbitros (Press and Referee Centre
• ISSN: 0003-8504; 1554-2769
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2043

What will be the outcome of the large‐scale construction programmes and under‐delivered promises undertaken in preparation for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games? Ana Luiza Nobre, Associate Professor of Architectural History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Head of Research and Education at the Instituto Moreira Salles, gazes into her crystal ball and asks what the ongoing legacy of Rio 2016 might be.