Arena Stadium Nanterre | Paris | France | Atelier Zündel Cristea

Today, apart from its great aesthetic and emotional value, the implementation of wood stems from our concern with ethical, energy, and environmental issues.
Despite giving off the appearance of a completely wooden building, the stadium in reality possesses a heterogeneous structure underneath, composed equally of steel and concrete. Two metal-beam trusses extend across the 100m length of the plot, traversing and bracing the edifice, and giving an overall finesse to the wooden structure. Within the stadium, both the public and the athletes enjoy a significant amount of natural light (5%), which passes through the building’s membrane. The hall’s large façade is a double-glazed curtained wall behind which sits visible the wooden structure.......more

International Architectural Design Competition | La Ciudad del Motor | Alcaniz | Aragon | Spain | UNStudio

The Cuidad del motor project is the centerpiece of the new world-class racing site. The building is organized like a continuous loop with two crossing points. The loop houses the various programmatic elements and the complimentary program. The design is based on generating the maximum interaction between building and surrounding, especially the tracks, providing multiple experiences to the visitor.........more

Football Stadium Design | Dailan Football Stadium | Dalian | China | UNStudio

The design for the 40,000 spectator, 38,500 m2 football stadium - inspired by the colourful layering and overlapping of the ancient Chinese cuju football - weaves together the collective spirit of the spectators with the public realm and the urban context of the building. The main stadium houses spectator seating, TV broadcasting centre, administration areas, VIP lounge, players facilities and public concourse in a layered envelope which extends on ground level to provide outdoor public areas above decked parking facilities. In addition, the design incorporates two training fields on the 144,000 m2 site...more

Sports and Recreational Centre | Green Forum Poreč | Porec | Croatia | 3HLHD Architects

In the center of the town of Poreč, important Croatian tourist destination in Istrian peninsula, there is a large vacant space. This large space of the town parking lot has exceptional potential, because of the nearby old town and the Adriatic Sea, the pedestrian hub, the town access roads and the other city contact zones.......more

Architectural Competition | Olympic VeloPark London 2012 Games | FLACQ

FLACQ was shortlisted to design the Olympic VeloPark for the London 2012 Games.
The design aims to create a world-class cycling venue that is deliverable, cost-efficient and provides a positive contribution to the legacy urban strategy. Strong environmental credentials are achieved through the use of appropriate materials and services strategy.

The scheme locates the Velodrome as the northern gateway building to the Olympic Park, with all of the cycling facilities rearranged within the urban plan to give the building a powerful presence.........more

First Place Winner | Architectural Competiton | 2013 Chinese National Games Judo Arena | Shenyang | China | Emergent

The site for the Chinese National Games Arena is located in a Shenyang University courtyard lined on three sides by University buildings and on one side by major arterial street which features the new 300kmh Shenyang High-Speed Rail line. The design is a simple volume which becomes increasingly articulated and transparent towards public spaces and its main entry.

The arena will house 3,000 fixed seats above the mezzanine level and 2,000 retractable seats below. It is designed for maximum flexibility to allow for both official Judo events in 2013 and for performing arts events, public lectures, and student sports events after the completion of the games. The retractable seating system allows for the conversion of a 51m x 31m gaming area into a 64m x 44m multifunctional space......more

Mullhouse Swimming Centre | Mullhouse | France | Serero Architects

Inspired by studies of decomposition of movement of swimmers, the building is designed as a large undulating roof and raised in correspondence to the volume of space it houses. The roof extends to several locations in canopies that mark the entrance to the building, home to the beaches of the most widely used outdoor pool and access to the existing building's swimming club..........more

Architectural Design Competition | Holmenkollen Ski-jump | Oslo | Norway | Estudio BaBO

Architecture competition for the Holmenkollen Ski-jump in Oslo, Norway.
In collaboration with R21.

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Architectural Competition | Nizhny Novgorod Winter Sports Complex | Nizhny Novgorod | Russia | Wilkinson Eyre

These design proposals for a new ski jump and sports complex in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod are a response to a complex brief and a sensitive site. The new facilities include a 120m ski jump and multi purpose leisure accommodation for large volumes of people. Located on a steeply wooded site on the banks of the Volga, the design respects the natural topography of the river bank as well as several important historical structures nearby............more

Architectural Competiton | Guangzhou Velodrome | Guangzhou | China | Wilkinson Eyre

These proposals for a new Velodrome in Guangzhou were developed as part of an international design competition. The island site is masterplanned around a central lake and green landscaped heart, and will eventually host 10 university campuses with a population of over 150,000 students. Lying within the ‘Sports and Information Zone’, our design has been inspired by the concentric rings of ripples caused by raindrops or stones falling into still water..........more

Beijing Olympic | Badminton Arena | Beijing | China | KCAP

Sport arena and surrounding landscape design The design for the 'Olympic Badminton Area' is a second prize competition design for Beijing’s Olympic Games in 2008. Based on the theme ‘Human, Green, High-Tech’, the design shows an alluring, artificial landscape that incorporates a whole range of functions in the fields of sport, culture and leisure. Set on top of an underground grid, the concept proposes a park-like site with stadiums, plazas and other amenities. These were designed as a series of circular elements, an allusion to the symbolic rings of the Olympic flag. The multifunctional centre is not merely the umpteenth architectural icon to be added to the city, but embodies a new kind of environment where nature, urban life and architecture are intermixed in a relaxed way. The result is a multifaceted and sustainable area, a ‘built landscape’ with a green character to be added to the campus of the Beijing University of Technology after the Olympic Games......more

Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics Speed Skating Oval | Studio Zoppini Associati

The oval for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics Bid is a tribute to the beautiful surrounding pine trees landscape. We recreated a sustainable artificial forest where both athletes, spectators and in general users will have the sense of being enclosed withing trees, this time artificial. The Venue will become in legacy an Exhibition Pavilion for the new Gangneung Science Park...........more

Palasport Figure Skating And Short Track Arena For Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games | Studio Zoppini Associati

Design for the New Figure Skating /short track Arena in Sochi (Russia). The facility is one of the centrepiece of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic. The design recalled for a flexiblefacility that due to sophisticated lexible stand can easily change its layout to cover for sporting, concerts and exhibition events.........more

Toluca Stadium | Toluca | Mexico City | Mexico | FREE

In a country where soccer is fundamental to the national psychology, we had the extraordinary opportunity to design a new stadium for one of the best teams in Mexico. The city of Toluca is located just west of Mexico City, and is capital of Estado de Mexico, with one of the most vibrant economies in the country. The typology of the arena responds to the vision of creating a multi-functional structure that not only hosts soccer matches but also supports a variety of events: concerts, recreation, shopping, and entertainment. This versatility defines the isotopic geometries that give the bleachers their rhomboid identity, which work well for both football matches and massive concerts. The building envelope is covered with ivy, providing it with a green and ecological identity.........more

Bahrain International Circuit Sakhir | Kingdom of Bahrain | Zaha Hadid

The master plan of the new Centre for Excellence and Car Experience at the Bahrain International Circuit combines a variety of disparate programs, including a Centre for Motor Excellence, an Alternative Energy Research Centre, Manufacturing Facilities, and an Educational Complex. Additionally, a ‘car experience’ focused on manufacturer’s showcases, car experiences, and retail, provide a focal point for the complex. Finally, a high-end hotel and racing clubhouse rise above the surrounds, overlooking the track and the new development......more

Hiroshima Stadium | Architecture W

" Our proposal for this 30,000 seat, open air baseball stadium, designed in collaboration with ArupSports, Atelier Dreiseitl, and Ziba, explores the synergy between a state of the art sports facility and substantial hotel, restaurant and office components that surround the actual playing field.".......more

Real Zaragoza New Football Stadium | Francisco Mangado

A football stadium is a large “object” with an infrastructural character; a huge structure, imposing in scale, that serves a specific purpose. The objective should be to make it more like a building. By this we mean more urban, more attentive to what goes on around it. Only if it is in the middle of nothing can it ignore the surroundings. But in this case, in the outskirts of Zaragoza, there are connections with the city, constructions of diverse uses. An urban structure exists. It is up to the large plinth to do the job of adapting the object—the actual stadium, the bowl—to the city. The plinth absorbs all the complexity, both programmatic and functional, that a stadium accumulates. As the most civic part of the building, the plinth acts as a nexus between its urban, more human, more graspable scale on one hand, and its larger, more distant structural scale. The plinth becomes an urban façade with possible commercial or institutional uses incorporated in it, but it also turns into ramps and planes for people entering the stadium en masse, and it absorbs the grade differences existing in the lot. More complementary than contradictory to this focus on the plinth’s role in urban adaptation—a very common recourse in the history of large architectures endowed with the capacity to signify and symbolize—is the project’s recognition of the fact that football stadium nowadays have the capacity to represent and qualify a given zone. The stadium itself, the clear-cut bowl, in formal expression much lighter that the plinth it sits on, will appear in the distant horizon but also in urban proximity as an exponent of intentions to create architectural meaning........more

Sports Center and SPA-Pool | Saint Moritz, Switzerland | Francisco Mangado

Saint-Moritz is more a landscape than a city. It has the grandeur of nature, the omnipresence of its mountains. Surely in a deliberate way, the city adapts to the immensity and beauty of the environment.

The swimming pool building is situated at the perimeter of the city core, where there are no references to urban schemes or built structures. One might say that the building stands alone, with no built realm to protect it, in a place where it is isolated, facing the mountains themselves. These conditions are attractive and suggestive. Why not make the most of them?

So the building’s section starts out by tracing itself as a prolongation of the outline of the mountains, a continuation of the landscape. And it comes across as something that extends the mountain profile into the city.

Hence, from the moment the outline of the mountains and the section of the building merge into a single line, the building presents itself as a topography and blends into the landscape of Saint-Moritz.

The design’s “mountainous” section gives rise to a large space, a huge roof containing all the pools and other facilities. A large rich space where every pool area, depending on its particular function—the children’s area which has to be acoustically insulated but visually controlled, the diving area which required higher ceilings...—has its own unique space.

The grand space, divided into zones by glass but unitary in conception, projects outward along a fully glazed perimeter that gives the swimmer a view of the landscape surrounding Saint-Moritz (mainly toward the west, which is more freed up, visually), and of the skiers who day by day start their routine at this point.....more

Hiroshima Stadium By Architecture W

"Our proposal for this 30,000 seat, open air baseball stadium, designed in collaboration with ArupSports, Atelier Dreiseitl, and Ziba, explores the synergy between a state of the art sports facility and substantial hotel, restaurant and office components that surround the actual playing field.".......Architecture W