Eighth Street Apartments
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Eighth Street Apartments are apartment-style residence halls at Georgia Tech. They opened in 1995 as housing for the athletes and journalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
in Atlanta, GA as a part of the Olympic Village
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The Apartments are separated into 3 buildings which are known as either East, South, or West. East houses 216 residents, South houses 188, and West houses 248. Together, the Eighth Street Apartments originally cost $24,844,000 to construct and was designed by Cooper Carry
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1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....
in Atlanta, GA as a part of the Olympic Village
Olympic Village
An Olympic Village is an accommodation centre built for an Olympic Games, usually within an Olympic Park or elsewhere in a host city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials, athletic trainers, and other staff. Since the Munich Massacre at the 1972...
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The Apartments are separated into 3 buildings which are known as either East, South, or West. East houses 216 residents, South houses 188, and West houses 248. Together, the Eighth Street Apartments originally cost $24,844,000 to construct and was designed by Cooper Carry
Cooper Carry
Cooper Carry is a US-based design firm providing architecture, planning, landscape architecture, interior design and environmental graphic design. The company is based in Atlanta, Georgia with offices in Alexandria, Virginia; New York, New York; and Newport Beach, California.Cooper Carry was...
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