With the Milano–Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics underway, it is worth looking back at how the Olympic Village has evolved from a purely functional solution into a strategic urban project. From improvised housing compounds to key pieces of urban regeneration, Olympic Villages have repeatedly functioned as large-scale experiments in how parts of the city can be built within a short period of time.

Designed under intense time pressure and for a highly specific population, these environments reveal shifting ideas about housing, collective life, and the urban legacy of mega-events. Across different editions, the Olympic Village reflects broader ways in which events, housing, and cities intersect under conditions of urgency.

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With over 280k followers on Wechat, a Chinese social media platform, ArchDaily has become the most influential architectural media across the Chinese community. Throughout 2020, more than 9.2million audiences has gained insights on the architectural news from all around the world via the official account named 建日筑闻(ADCNEWS). With restriction of buiding residential houses in China, the Chinese audience shows strong preference towards cultural architecture and urban renovation. As a review of the most popular projects we post in 2020, we've round up the 10 most shared projects on our Chinese platform in 2020.

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On behalf of the entire ArchDaily team, we would like to thank you for your continued support and for making 2020 our best year so far! We are now reaching more architects around the world and inspiring them in the creation of better built environments. With more than 5500 different projects published during the year, our curators are excited to share this collection of the 100 most visited projects of 2020. This selection represents the best content created and shared by the ArchDaily community over the past 11 months.

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