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Sat 04 Apr 2007Mysteries of the Olympia's canopyArtScape:Walking down Dame Street hasn't been the same since a truck bashed into the gorgeous canopy - a riot of stained-glass Victoriana and one of the city's best-loved architectural landmarks - at the Olympia.It's been more than two years, and we've wondered if it is ever going to be reinstated. It seems the Olympia has been wondering the very same thing, and seems to have been in the dark about what was happening to the iconic glass and iron structure, which defined the streetscape of that part of Dame Street since 1897.