Construction at IOC Headquarters -- Photodesk

(ATR) The date for the opening of the new IOC headquarters in Lausanne is set for June 2019.

The headquarters will open its doors to around 500 staff members, which have been working out of temporary offices scattered around the city. Olympic Day will fittingly be the grand opening for the new building, which started construction in 2016.

The size of the building, 16,000 square meters, dwarfs the two-story predecessor. The old glass and marble headquarters has been ground into pieces that were incorporated into the foundation of the new Olympic House. Danish firm 3XN is the architect of the fluid, floating building on the shore of Lake Geneva.

During a visit to the site in mid-July, gravel was being spread as the base for a greenspace on the west side of the building. The landscaped area will include placement of the marble archway that once served as the entrance to the old headquarters, which opened in 1986. The space will be planted with 120 trees, 50 more than were on the site prior to construction.

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Written by Ed Hula andAaron Bauer

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