"The history of the Olympic Games, while marked by athletic achievement, is consistently contrasted by infrastructure challenges. Across host cities, from Athens to Rio and Beijing, similar issues arise: significant cost overruns and the complex issue of legacy. The big question is: What is the best viable long-term use for purpose-built sport venues? Montreal's 1976 Games shared this fate after building an Olympic Park that faced heavy criticism for cost overruns and debt from specialized construction."
"During that time, it hosted other major events, such as " Les Floralies Internationales de Montréal" in 1980, an international horticultural exhibition. In 1988, the city explored the possibility of transforming the velodrome into The Biodome: an environmental enclosure that would use the existing light-filled shell of the velodrome to house and display multiple, self-contained, recreated, and climate-controlled biospheres. The project proposed four distinct ecosystems from the Americas: the Tropical Forest (modeled on South American rainforests), the Laurentian Forest (North American wilderness),"
Olympic host cities repeatedly confront major cost overruns and difficult legacy decisions for purpose-built venues. Montreal's 1976 Olympic Park, designed by Roger Taillibert, included a velodrome that hosted track cycling and judo but lacked a defined permanent purpose after the Games. The velodrome temporarily hosted major events such as Les Floralies Internationales de Montréal (1980). In 1988, the city pursued converting the velodrome into The Biodome, an environmental enclosure using the venue's light-filled shell to house multiple self-contained, climate-controlled biospheres representing four ecosystems: Tropical Forest, Laurentian Forest, Saint Lawrence Marine Ecosystem, and the Sub-Polar Region.
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