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

Seaside Resort | Birnbeck Island | Weston-super-Mare | Fletcher Priest Architects

Seaside towns and ports encapsulate the romance and character of the British. For over two hundred years, they provided an escape from centres of industry. Ordinary and exotic co-existed side by side, and discovering the extraordinary in the ordinariness is what excites the curious visitor. Birnbeck Island has been used as a steamer pier, a weapon testing area and a pier-head ride with recreational facilities. The proposal takes advantage of the isolated location, the perfect setting for a hedonistic life-style, based upon health and well being........more

Gulating Visitors Centre | Norway | Eriksen Skajaa Architects

Gulating is among the oldest courts in Norway and gathered each year from 900-1300 at Gulen to settle disputes. The project is a new visitors centre with cafe and an exhibition about the site in connection to a sculpture park by the sculptor Bård Breivik. The centre also include wardrobes and workshop spaces for an outdoors play that takes place each summer on the site.

The project takes it name from the old fire cairn system that was used along the coast and across the mountains and the visitors centre marks the site as an important point in the landscape.
Visitors arrive at the ground floor where there is an information desk and a café. From the ground visitors move up into the house through the different parts of the exhibition before arriving at the roof where there is a view across the fjord........more