Saddam Hussein Gymnasium

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Saddam Hussein Gymnasium is a sports complex in Baghdad, Iraq.

Designed by Le Corbusier under the commission of King Faisal II in 1956.[1] After Faisal II was overthrown in a military coup in 1958 and the project was put aside. Saddam Hussein's revolutionary government revived the project by building an indoor 3,000 seat stadium and an adjacent, open-air amphitheater linked by an enormous sliding door which, when opened, integrates the two stadia.

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  1. ^ Gans, Deborah (2006). The Le Corbusier Guide, 154-155. 


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