Public Artwork

Archway – Olympic Plaza

Gibbs Gage Architects, Archway – Olympic Plaza, 1988
Gibbs Gage Architects, Archway – Olympic Plaza, 1988
Gibbs Gage Architects, Archway – Olympic Plaza, 1988
Gibbs Gage Architects, Archway – Olympic Plaza, 1988
Location:
Olympic Plaza, 7th Avenue Southeast and Macleod Trail Southeast, Calgary, AB, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
Gibbs Gage Architects
Text author(s): 
Gibbs Gage Architects
Installation year: 
1988
Description: 

Olympic Plaza is the site of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games medals presentation and comes complete with a wading pool, which becomes a skating rink in the winter months.

Text of the artwork: 

Citius, Altius, Fortius

Note(s): 

Olympic bricks, sold to the public to commemorate the 1988 Winter Olympics. Maps of individual brick locations are available at the Information Kiosk in City Hall.