Container Sports Centre in Rome
Design: LAD Architects. The sports center is made up of the main block contains offices, bar and services, the locker rooms block, a ramp for skateboarding, and three towers for climbing workouts.
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e-architect select sports centre building developments from around the world – sport centres architecture projects information, news and pictures of the best new building designs globally.
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.
Changbaishan Ski Resort in China
Design: GRAFT! Changbaishan Ski Resort facilities with integrated Hotel and panorama restaurants, as part of a large scale tourism development project. After two decades of infrastructural and urban development, China is now experiencing a fast build-up of tourism activities.
Xili Sports and Cultural Centre Shenzhen, China
MVRDV with Zhubo Architecture Design win the architectural competition for the Xili Sports and Cultural Centre: the project seeks to transform the lives of people through offering a more humanistic model for sports and culture.
Warsaw Sports Park Competition, Poland
Warsaw is a city under a considerable pressure for change. Stark political system change and enormous economic uplift have left several public spaces and relevant buildings to the will of speculative developers.
National Stadium in Singapore Building
Design: Arup Associates. Situated on a beautiful, central, 35 hectare waterfront site, the Singapore Sports Hub provides a unique ecosystem of sporting, leisure spaces and retail at the pivot between Singapore’s expanding city centre and the wider public population.
Latymer Upper School Sports Centre London
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.
Combined Colleges Boathouse Cambridge
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.
Youth Arena for Rio 2016 Olympic Park
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.
Neumatt Sports Center Strengelbach
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.
Whitewater Stadium for Rio 2016 Olympic Park
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.
Tennis Venues for Rio 2016 Olympic Park
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.
Aquatics Stadium for Rio 2016 Olympic Park
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.
Water Park Building in Coventry
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.
Supreme Sport Village Rome
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.
Allianz Riviera Stadium Building
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.
Jules Ladoumègue Stadium Paris
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).
Horse Park in Yeongcheon, South Korea
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.