In the context of the Olympic Games, a pavilion rose on the Boulevard Périphérique that can accommodate large numbers of spectators while serving as a hub of activity for the community. On a plinth providing facilities for local associations emerge t
Helios Park, a baseball field in Ciudad Acuña – in the Mexican state of Coahuila – was clearly in a state of neglect and deterioration. An undertaking of SEDATU (Mexico’s Secretariat for Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development), the refurbishment sough
MVRDV – in collaboration with Huavi Design – has won the competition to design the Shenzhen Pingshan Sports Park in the east of Shenzhen, which is to include an arena for badminton tournaments and other athletic championships as well as the new Chine
A joint work of Verne arquitectura – Víctor Larripa, Javier Martínez, Daniel Ruiz de Gordejuela– and Alejandro Maortua, the project involved designing a pelota court and a series of spaces for different uses in Aguilar de Codés, a small locality in N
Located at the northwest corner of the Shaoxing University campus, these public sports facilities address the scarcity of land by stacking playing fields vertically, with a football pitch at the top. Designed by The Architectural Design & Researc
Construction of the Cloud 9 Sports Center has now begun in Shijiazhuang, the capital of China’s northwestern province of Hebei, for completion in 2025. Designed by Ma Yansong/MAD Architects, the building encompasses 2,918 square meters undergound and
These premises are permeable to the city, seeking to use physical exercise and social interactions as a means of awakening in people a sense of belonging to the community. A simple sawtooth roof like those of nearby industries and a skin of perforate
On the campus of Waseda University in Honio, a city in Japan’s Saitama Prefecture, this three-story building contains facilities for sport training and meetings. The gym had to have natural indirect lighting, ideal for physical exercises done indoors
On the north shoe of Lake Constance – in Markelfingen, a district town of Radolfzell am Bodensee – stands this timber construction that is a hub of community life, providing sport facilities and event spaces. The project’s central defining feature bo
The Los Angeles-based practice of Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa was commissioned to build a pavilion within the Youth Sports Complex, a park with facilities for football and lacrosse, for the City of Pompano Beach. Containing office space, restro
La Pedrera is a general plan designed for the countryside of Mexico City. It includes spaces to celebrate all sorts of sports activities, such as horseriding or kitesurf, as a tribute to Greek olympic architecture and its palaestrae...
Located at the entrance to the Brazza area of Bordeaux, this sports center has built area exceeding 15,700 square meters and rises 20 meters. The exterior spaces are superimposed like urban squares and streets protected against wind. The building’s m
Combining curved and rectilinear forms, the complex is divided into five concrete blocks separated by gardens themed around the four seasons and connected by raised semi-outdoor corridors. Oriented inward, the project draws inspiration from the nearb
One of the open tournaments of the professional tennis circuit is held on premises where the facilities, presenting a simple wall of rammed earth, blend with the desert landscape. A series of platforms molds the terrain to form playing courts, which
Over the years since it opened in the late 1960s, the Trumpf machinery factory has grown and expanded to become a large industrial campus in the German city of Ditzingen, 15 kilometers from Stuttgart. It has already grown horizontally all it can, so
The 20-meter-high building is subdivided into horizontal layers that respond to the stacked spatial program. Functionally, the building is structured in three main areas: the stacked ice rinks, the high diving and competition pools, and the leisure a
This sports facility is part of the production complex of the Mexican tool manufacturer Truper, used by its employees and their families. There are no other constructions around, and the complex tries to keep its volumes as imperceptible as possible,
The Julia Powell Hall is a sports and multipurpose space on the campus of Runnymede College in Alcobendas, a municipality of the Madrid metropolitan area. The starting point of the project was taking advantage of the existing foundation: the basement
In addition to promoting the practice of water activities and bringing different sports clubs into one building, the new facilities of a marina are meant to serve as a social hub for the locality.
The kamwokya informal settlement, located among the hills of Kampala’s central district, is one of the most indigent areas of the capital, with a high dwelling density, scarce infrastructures, and poor health conditions. Surprisingly, it hides the on
The existing school complex was constructed by Hans von Meyenburg from 1954 to 1956. It is dispersed across the site in a loosely staggered parallel configuration. The project strategy is based on an analysis of the existing buildings, which are unde
Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to design the Hangzhou International Sports Centre. The scheme incorporates a 60,000-seat football stadium, a 19,000-seat indoor sports arena, and an aquatics center with two 50-meter pools. There are als
In Tarbes, a commune in the Occitanie region of France’s Hautes-Pyrénées department, the firm IDOM – directed by Inés López Taberna, Iñaki Garai and Gohar Manrique San Pedro – transformed a building used in the early 20th century for the military ind
The Kagawa gymnasium, which resembles a traditional Japanese ship, opened in 1964. It was shut in 2014 due to problems with its structure not being earthquake-resistant as well as its low ceilings, which made it unsuited for use in some sports compet
The world’s first multilevel skatepark could easily have come across as architectural dad-dancing, but it’s just right for its target audience F51 bills itself as the world’s first multilevel skatepark, a place where skaters, cyclists, scooters, roll
The dynamism that is associated with the use of horizontal bands in buildings, as well as with skating as a sport, is the gist of the scheme that has made Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano the winners of the competition to enlarge a high-performan
In a departure from the gothic image of English private schools, Brighton College’s new building, designed by OMA, is an expression of global ambition. Think of an English private school and you will probably think of somewhere gothic. Something like
Shortly before the University of Mexico pinned on him the Attolini Medal, the Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza received this year’s COAM Award for the Sports Center of Francisco de Vitoria University in Pozuelo de Alarcón, in Madrid. It is an i
Ours is not a time of rationality, but a time of feelings. And this holds true not only in politics; it has a more popular and visible version in sports. While Barça prides itself on being “more than a club,” other clubs invoke other things, though p
En la turística isla surcoreana de Jeoju, Shigeru Ban y Kyeong Sik Yoon han construido el club social del campo de golf Haesley Nine Bridges de 16.000 metros cuadrados (véase Arquitectura Viva 137). El programa se divide en dos ámbitos formal y mater
‘Bosque de la esperanza’: este es el nombre del polideportivo al aire libre diseñado por Giancarlo Mazzanti en la comuna colombiana de Cazucá. Promovido por la Fundación Pies Descalzos —fundada por la cantante Shakira—, el proyecto ha sido financiado
La localidad catalana de Olot, y más concretamente, su Club de Patinaje Artístico —pentacampeón mundial en la modalidad Grupo Show— cuenta con nuevas instalaciones; una pista cubierta de patinaje sobre ruedas y un pabellón polideportivo, firmados por
«Una gran burbuja de aire sobre un basamento de hormigón», así describen Eva Luque y Alejandro Pascual —Los del Desierto— el pabellón polideportivo que acaban de terminar en el municipio de Garrucha. Los invernaderos de la zona, a base de perfiles de
El Centro de Tecnificación Deportiva en Guijo de Granadilla, en Cáceres, diseñado por el madrileño José María Sánchez García, ha abierto sus puertas. Emplazado en un entorno privilegiado, en la cuenca del Tajo, plantea dos círculos concéntricos de do
La propuesta ‘Parque plegado’ de Lourdes Carretero, Iván Carbajosa y Manuel Leira ha obtenido el primer premio en el concurso convocado por el Ayuntamiento de Madrid para un Centro Deportivo de Accesibilidad Universal en el distrito de Hortaleza. El
