e-architect select sports centre building developments from around the world – sport centres architecture projects information, news and pictures of the best new building designs globally.
The website features a selection of the best new sports centre building designs around the world, by respected designers.
In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary sporting architecture projects on this international website. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works.
Design: DP Architects + Arup + AECOM. Asia’s first integrated sports, leisure, entertainment and lifestyle destination. Located on a stunning 35-hectare waterfront site, this building provides a unique ecosystem of sporting, retail and leisure spaces.
Design: LAD Architects. The sports center is made up of the main block contains offices, bar and services, the locker rooms block, a ramp for skateboarding, and three towers for climbing workouts.
Design: GRAFT! Changbaishan Ski Resort facilities with integrated Hotel and panorama restaurants, as part of a large scale tourism development project. After two decades of infrastructural and urban development, China is now experiencing a fast build-up of tourism activities.
MVRDV with Zhubo Architecture Design win the architectural competition for the Xili Sports and Cultural Centre: the project seeks to transform the lives of people through offering a more humanistic model for sports and culture.
Warsaw is a city under a considerable pressure for change. Stark political system change and enormous economic uplift have left several public spaces and relevant buildings to the will of speculative developers.
Design: Arup Associates. Situated on a beautiful, central, 35 hectare waterfront site, the Singapore Sports Hub provides a unique ecosystem of sporting, leisure spaces and retail at the pivot between Singapore’s expanding city centre and the wider public population.
Design: FaulknerBrowns Architects. This elegant and efficient sports centre building maximises available space on a tightly constrained site. The design solution links two simple geometric volumes – sports hall and pool block – with a spine of accommodation and circulation.
R H Partnership Architects (RHP) completed work on a new boathouse for the combined Cambridge Colleges of Churchill, King’s and Selwyn, together with The Leys School.
Design: Vigliecca and Associados
Built for the Games, the facility will stage the modern pentathlon fencing matches, as well as the group stage of the women’s basketball tournament.
Architects: Evolution Design. Sports centers can be simple, dark spaces that don’t motivate people to spend time there. By designing a bright sports hall flooded with daylight, the architects tried to encourage people to truly enjoy the building.
Design: Vigliecca and Associados
One of the most technically complex Rio 2016 facilities, the Whitewater Stadium holds 25 million litres of water in its two canoe slalom courses: one for the competitions, measuring 250 m, and a 200-m training course.
Design: gmp Architects
The main arena layout consists of circular stands in monolithic concrete over a structured slab with braced radial raker beams that support the precast elements of the sitting area.
Design: gmp Architects
The temporary building structures of stands and roof, conceived for later reutilization, were designed to allow simple disassembling, transportation and later assembling operation.
Design: FaulknerBrowns
The proposed location of the Water Park adjacent to one of the three spires within the city offers significant regeneration benefits in terms of access, footfall and synergies with the mixed-use economy of Coventry city centre.
Design: LAD Architects. The “Supreme Sport Village” is a sports center located in Rome, in a suburb called Tor Sapienza, close to the eastern border of the city between Via Collatina and Via Prenestina.
Design: Wilmotte & Associés
This is a multipurpose ‘eco-stadium’: The architectural parti was transparency, and special attention was paid to the stadium’s skin, eliminating the distinction between inside and outside and animating both the interior and exterior of the building.
Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes. Reconstruction and extension of the sport centre within the context of tramway line T3 reinforcement and the new maintenance centre for the RATP (transport service Ile de France).