
tourists, who stroll through the center of turin might get aware of a sophisticated building, the so called atrium, which stands for the new city planning of an "old" industrial town. all this is atrium torino, a project carried out by the city council, in cooperation with the province of turin and of toroc committee, designed by giugiaro architettura, in order to present both the events leading up to the 20th turin olympic winter games of 2006, and to illustrate the changes of the city and the region of the sorrounding area. due to their mammoth extent in time and in space, these changes will echo well after the end of the sporting event, writes the official atrium website.



indes versinkt die stadt in diversen baugruben und läßt so nur erahnen, was das touristische potential der stadt sein könnte. auch eine u-bahn soll bis olympia 2006 fertiggestellt werden und alles wird (möglicherweise) anders werden: wenn sich die planer nur nicht getäuscht haben! wer indes schon heute seine karten und sündteure wie unnütze souvenirs besorgen möchte, der kann dies bereits im fertiggestellten fremdenverkehrszentrum der stadt, dem

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