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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: 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).
Design: The Evolved Architectural Eclectic Limited. ‘Nature-friendly theme park’ for humans and horses, designed by the architects as a total paradigm shift from traditional horse-racing culture to horse-race-meets-theme-park.
Design: Agence Search Architects
The Châteaulin swimming pool will be located on the edge of town, along a curve in the banks of the Aulne river. The project is part of a larger ensemble of public works, which together will constitute a sports and recreation center at the scale of the provincial city and the extended region.
Design: Blaze Makoid Architecture. Martis Camp is a 2,200 acre multigenerational ski and golf club located between historic Truckee, California, and Lake Tahoe.