Olympic Games

One Austrian already has gold in his pocket!

The glass wall around the Eiffel Tower is also by Feichtinger.(Bild: David Boureau copyright)

While 81 athletes from Austria are competing for gold at the Olympic Games in Paris, another has long since fought his way to the top. Architect Dietmar Feichtinger lets the French walk on water, gets to work on the Eiffel Tower, builds metro stations and explains which sport is most similar to an architectural competition ...  

Rue Edouard Vaillant in the east of Paris. Lots of narrow alleyways, hardly any cars, sometimes absolute silence - Paris can be like that during the Olympic Games. Finally a small garage door with a 2CV painted on it, a few meters next to it the inconspicuous entrance to an even more inconspicuous building. Ten bicycles on the ground floor, a man with a bandaged foot and crutches on the second floor. "Slipped on a visit home to Austria," sighs star architect Dietmar Feichtinger, who receives the "Krone" in his Paris office for two hours.