Architects: Architecture3s Location: Frisco, TX, USA Project area: 10,000 sq. ft. Project year: 2009 Photographs: Architecture3s This is the completion of a 10,000 sf. training facility as part of the FieldhouseUSA in north Texas. The facility is specifically designed to deliver world-class training to athletes. It’s features include a 7,000 sq/ft training floor, state-of-the-art equipment, ener..
Architects: Populous Location: Ravenscraig, Motherwell, UK Engineering: Buro Happold (structural, civil, mechanical, electrical and public health services) FEDRA (fire) Client: North Lanarkshire Council / Sportscotland / Ravenscraig Ltd / Motherwell College Total Cost: £31.3 million Completion Date: Autumn 2010 Photographs: Andrew Lee PROJECT OBJECTIVE: The clients commissioned the design team t..
Architect: MoederscheimMoonen Architects Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Project Architect: Erik Moederscheim Project Team: Erik Moederscheim, Ruud Moonen, Jelle Rinsema Engineering: Bureau Bouwkunde Structural Engineering: IBT Bouwtechniek General Contractor: Batenburg BV Client: Municipality of Rotterdam Gross floor space: 1,410 sqm Photographs: Rob ‘t Hart MoederscheimMoonen Architects r..
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has won a competition to redevelop the Dynamo Moscow Stadium and surrounding park in Moscow. Called VTB Arena Park, the project will create two stadiums plus shops, restaurants and cultural facilities within the facade of the existing building, first opened in 1928. This will leavethe remainder of the site to be developed as parkland, while underground parking c..
Parque Humano Architects have designed a club house on a golf course in Morelia, Mexico. The house occupies a natural ledge on a hillside looking towards the panoramic valley of Montana Monarca, in Morelia, Mexico. The building has been conceived as a homogenous stone mass, hollowing out a huge opening that slopes from ceiling to floor, framing the hillside panorama. A sloped celosia grid meant ..
Portuguese architects Risco shared with us their project Arena Dragão Caixa, a pavilion for Porto Football Club. The project was completed in 2009 and has an area of 13,900 m2. You can see more images and architect’s description after the break. The site, which is irregular in shape, is actually the left-over of a network of road infrastructures. The construction of the pavilion is particularly ..
Here’s another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier stories here and here) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting this week in South Africa. Above photograph by Bruce Sutherland Called Green Point Stadium, the project is located in Cape Town and has a capacity of 68,000 on three tiers. Once the 2010 FIFA World Cup is over 13,000 of these seats will be removed and repl..
client: The Municipality of Greve Place: Hundige, Denmark Year: Concept development 2003 / Construction periode 2008-2010 Purpose: Culture and sports Surface area: 17,800 sq.ft Commission: Public from cebra
Architects: Laurens & Loustau Architects Location: Toulouse (31), France Project Team: Marc Laurens, Pierre Loustau, Elsa Hiernaux, Joanne Pouzenc Client: S.A Cogemip, Région Midi-Pyrénées Engineer: Iosis Sud-Ouest Project Area: 1,493 sqm Project Year: 2006-2008 Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau The building displayed is the new INP gymnasium, situated on the universuity campus of Toulouse-labège, ..
Our friends from CEBRA shared their recently awarded Sports Center design with us. The 3.5 m2 extension will incorporate handicap friendly solutions within a sports facility, as almost 50 % of the students attending Egmont High School experience some form of disability whether it be that they are blind, mentally challenged or an amputee. Entitled Kolden, the Danish world for ‘the globe’, the pro..
