ATLANTApix: Palalympic Legacy

"Paralympic Legacy"

Nestled in the northeast corner of Centennial Olympic Park is a paralympics monument named Paralympic Legacy. The monument stands in honor of the 3,310 athletes who participated in the 1996 Paralympic Games held only two weeks after the Centennial Olympic Games hosted in Atlanta, Georgia.

The athletes, representing 103 countries and whose names are inscribed on the four granite columns surrounding a taller spiral sculpture, set 268 new world records that year.

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ATLANTApix: Portman's Dogwood

"Dogwood" by John Portman

There's a large modern, bronze sculpture in downtown Atlanta that could not bear a more appropriate name, as representative of it's locale, nor could it have been created by a more appropriate artist. Dogwood sits at the base of Suntrust Plaza. The architect, perhaps Atlanta's most popular, John  Portman, was also the artist responsible for Dogwood.

Dogwood sits at the north end of Suntrust Plaza, which sits at the north end of downtown Atlanta, as to welcome visitors from the North to the capital of the South...could there be a more clever banner of welcome?

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