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With state-of-the-art facilities, improvements including improved seating, a fast payment system and a stunning façade, the Barclaycard Arena is a world-class venue in the heart of Birmingham, offering a world class customer experience.
Grimshaw selected to create a new range of community sports facilities across Qatar. Secured through a competition funded by the Qatar Olympic Committee, the Al Farjan Recreational Sports Facilities aim to create new enriched social spaces and encourage community participation in sporting activities.
Design: Hype Studio Arquitetura. Beira-Rio Stadium has been home for Sport Club Internacional since 1969. Construction began in 1961, reclaiming land on Lake Guaiba to create the site where the stadium would be built
Design: Various Architects
The 2014 Football World Cup is held in many locations across Brazil. Since the decision was made to award Brazil with this prestigious event in 2007, work has been carried out to create venues suitable for such an occasion.
Design: gmp. Concept and scheme design of roof + esplanade as well as detailed design of esplanade Castro Mello arquitetos with consultancy service provided by gmp and schlaich bergermann and partners. Detailed design of roof gmp and schlaich bergermann and partners. Design of bowl Castro Mello arquitetos, São Paulo.
Design: Fernandes/Arquitetos Associados. The Arena Pernambuco, for sponsorship reasons called Itaipava Arena Pernambuco, was built to serve as the 2014 World Cup venue for the city of Recife. Construction of the stadium started in October 2010 and got completed in May 2013.
Design: GCP Architects. Arena Pantanal hosted it’s first official match between Mixto (MT) and Santos F.C., for the Brasil Cup first round. With design by GCP Architects, the new arena is gaining national and international prestige due to the concern over the legacy and the various eco-efficient solutions employed.
Design: BCMF Arquitetos
A modernist building in a modernist landscape.
Inaugurated in 1965 as the second largest stadium in the world, the Mineirão Stadium is located close to Oscar Niemeyer’s and Burle Marx seminal works around the Pampulha lake. This building has been transformed into a major Brazil World Cup 2014 venue.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Tadao Ando praised the fluidity and innovation of the design: “The entry’s dynamic and futuristic design embodies the messages Japan would like to convey to the rest of the world.”
However a petition to oppose construction is running, claiming the building is too large and too expensive…would fell many trees and spoil the nice human scale.
Design: Cox Architecture: Visitors to the newly redeveloped Adelaide Oval – one of Australia’s most iconic sports venues – will now be greeted by a dramatic, cantilevered curved form over the main entrance, created from over 4,000 individual panels of Nordic Bronze from Aurubis
Design: Populous. Construction complete on 2014 Incheon Asian Games Main Stadium. The celebration to mark the official end of construction on the main stadium for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games which begins September 19th was held in Incheon, South Korea on May 7th 2014.
Design: Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan raises the bar with new National Gymnastics Arena in Azerbaijan
The iconic 9,000-seat National Gymnastics Arena in Baku, Azerbaijan, designed by global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan, has completed. The £120 m building is one of only a handful of bespoke gymnastics venues in the world.
Design: von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp)
In the southern Chinese city of Dongguan – a city of several million – a basketball stadium has been completed to plans by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp). The building can be seen from afar and is a landmark that provides identity and orientation to the people in the new district of Liaobu.
Australian-based international architecture firm PTW Architects design African Games Stadium: world-class sports stadium in the Republic of the Congo with ecological features and high standard sports facilities for the 2015 All-Africa Games.