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Georgia Tech Campus Transformation As Georgia Tech completed its preparation for accommodating the 1996 Olympic Village, its campus remained enclosed behind barricades and underwent significant transformation. The world's best athletes will refer to Georgia Tech as their "home away from home." |
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The Fabulous Fox A beautifully outlandish, opulent, grandiose monument to the heady excesses of the pre-crash 1920's...The Fox stands today as a fiercly protected landmark and a nationally acclaimed theater. |
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Portman's Downtown Atlanta John Portman is one of the few architects in the history of architecture who has transformed the functioning of a major city through the designs of his buildings. He envisioned the idea of atriums in large buildings and introduced pedestrian corridors to link these atriums. |
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Public Spaces Designed to create and enhance quality permanent public spaces within the Olympic Ring, the Public Spaces Program of the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta (CODA) will leave a legacy which is civic in nature. |
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The Big Chicken In the Marietta area, all traffic directions are given with reference to the Big Chicken. It is the property of Kentucky Fried Chicken and has become a landmark that not only dominates the suburban landscape but is also animated. |
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Olympic Billboards Photos of the Olympic Billboard onslaught seen in and around Atlanta. |
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The Varsity ...Atlanta's popular fast-food joint despite its fame as the "temple of carbo- loading". Even the Olympic Torch Relay will take a suspicious two-block detour off Peachtree Street to visit this site! |
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Atlanta A text and photo essay by Richard Dagenhart and Eric Anderson on the history and development, past and present, of Atlanta. |
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Gorillas in the Bits Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Zoo Atlanta are working together to create a new kind of conservation education tool. Through the technology of Virtual Reality, users of the VIRTUAL GORILLA PROJECT are transformed into juvenile gorillas and allowed to wander the computer modeled gorilla habitats and interact with simulated gorillas of Zoo Atlanta. |
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Stone Mountain ...the city's most prominent natural landmark and the world's largest monolithic granite rock. On its steep, bold and naked face is a carving in high and full relief of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson. |
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Atlanta's Neighborhoods: Dreams & Crossroads See how the City of Atlanta is taking advantage of new communications technologies to reconnect the fabric of its inner-city neighborhoods and open doors to further community development. |
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Atlanta...A Symphony A historical look at Atlanta, a city that repeatedly overcame its past, and stands poised to do so again. One way or another, Atlanta, often against her will, has always symbolized the defeat of divisiveness and the triumph of the forces that struggled against social injustice. |
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