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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: Elkiær + Ebbeskov and LETH & GORI. A team lead by architects Elkiær + Ebbeskov and LETH & GORI has been announced as the winner of Randers Municipality and The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sport Facilities’ competition for the Langvang Multifunctional Sports Building. The proposal by E+E and LETH
& GORI was selected after a 2-phased competition.
Design: B3 Architects. One of the biggest sporting projects to be developed in Sheffield, England, in more than ten years is set to place the city at the heart of the government’s Olympic legacy programme. Plans are being submitted by Sheffield City Trust for a £14m extension and development project incorporating the new National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine at Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre.
Design: New Wave Architecture. Laying on the pristine context of Polour, overlooking the highest peak of Iran – Mount Damavand – and responding the climbing potential of the region, a spirited sport facility is imprinted delicately in the rocky lands of Mazandaran.
schmidt hammer lassen architects has, in collaboration with contractor KPC A/S and engineering company Bascon A/S, won the competition to design the new Sports and Administration Centre in Skanderborg, Denmark
Taekwondo-Won Building, Republic of Korea, design by Samoo Architects & Engineers. The Taekwondo-Won is established to become a global hub for the education, training, and promotion of Taekwondo, a Korean martial art that combines combat techniques with sports. With over 45million practitioners all around the world, the need for a central hub at the originating country was imminent.
F.3 Fellbach aquatic centre, neat Stuttgart, Germany, surrounding landscape forms guiding theme for 4a Architekten in shape and design. The new F.3 family and recreational aquatic centre in Fellbach: 4a Architekten have transferred the three separate areas – the sports area with indoor pool and open-air pool, the adventure pool and the sauna world.
Tignespace Building, Tarentaise Valley Development, Savoie Architecture Tignespace, Tarentaise Valley Savoie Building, Rhône-Alpes, France – design by Atelier Plexus architects / SG-Architecte 29 + 28 Oct 2013 Tignespace in Savoie Design: Alain PALMA of Atelier Plexus architects & Sylvain GIACHINO of SG-Architecte Location: Tignes, Tarentaise Valley, Savoie department, Rhône-Alpes region, south-eastern France Tignespace, indoor sports … Read more
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (SOSC) sports complex designed by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), who won the competitive bidding in 2008, and constructed it in under two and a half years.
Design: von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp). The Universiade sports center consists of a stadium, a multifunctional hall and a swimming pool. The building in the Bao’an district is designed as an athletics stadium, but during the 2011 Universiade it was used for football matches.
The new Kirkcaldy Leisure Centre presents its ‘public’ face to the Esplanade and the waterfront seeking to energise both with a dynamic and active façade that strives to become a positive catalyst for future waterside development.
Steven Holl Architects’ Campbell Sports Center at Columbia University has been named the Best New Building in New York in the 2013 MASterworks Awards, administered by the Municipal Arts Society.
The project is a part of the Košice European Capital of Culture 2013 project in order to transform a former heat exchanger into a cultural, public and sports centre.
Ice Rink of Liège, Sports Building Belgium, design by L’Escaut – Weinand, Architects – Liège Ice Rink Building, Belgian Arena Design
A Conversation with Steven Holl and Chris McVoy presents Steven Holl and senior partner Chris McVoy on site at Columbia University’s Baker Athletics Complex as they explain the design concept for the new Campbell Sports Center.