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Lund+Slaatto Architects, in collaboration with Nils Tveit Architects shared with us their winning proposal for the Arena Ulstein competition in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The main idea of the project is to create a place of sports and activities, where the qualities of the magnificent surrounding landscape will merge with the bourgeoning urban live of the town of Ulsteinvik. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

Rendering courtesy Design Subcontracting Company

Architects de bartolo + rimanic design studio in conjunction with McCullough Landscape Architecture have released their design for a new football stadium in San Diego California. Images with embedded descriptions after the break.
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© Atelier 11

Architects: Atelier 11
Location: Beijing, China
Design Director: Xu Lei
Design Team: Ding Liqun, Gao Qinglei, Liu Heng, An Peng
Construction Drawing: Xu Lei, An Peng, Gao Qinglei, Ding Liqun, Li Lei, Liu Heng, Zhu Yin, Jin Ding
Client: Beijing Shi Ao Co., Ltd.
Project area: 51,199 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2011
Photographs: Atelier 11

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© RemingtonStyle

Architects: RemingtonStyle – Pierre Frinault & David Jouquand
Location: Calais, France
Project area: 1,600 sqm
Cost: 2 088 000 €HT
Photographs: Clément Guillaume

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© Populous

The master plan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China has been awarded to Populous, whose designs of special event include Olympic Games, World Cups and Super Bowls.

The winning master plan for the international competition will see over 3 million square meters (320 million square feet) of built space added to the city of Nanjing including Olympic sports venues, exhibition centers and athlete’s accommodations. The Populous plan includes public buildings that will be illuminated like lanterns for the Youth Games.

More images and complete press release after the break. read more »

Courtesy of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, Hughes Condon Marler Architects, and SNC Lavalin

The Saucier + Perrotte Architectes and Hughes Condon Marler Architects with SNC Lavalin team won the architecture competition for the future sports complex in Saint-Laurent, a former city on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The winning team’s proposal distinguished itself from the others by the quality of its architectural gesture, the simplicity of the concept, the creation of a distinctively urban branding image and wayfinding strategy, its adherence to the surface areas of the facilities, the effectiveness of its sustainable development strategies and its potential for change. More images and project description after the break. read more »

© Tom Arban Photography

Architects: Perkins + Will
Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Project area: 80,000 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Tom Arban Photography

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© Luuk Kramer

Architects: Fact Architects – Inge Brouwer, Juul van Gemert, 
Peer Glandorff, 
Jean-Marc Saurer, Ruud Visser
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Structural Engineer: Pieters Bouwtechniek, Delft
Installations: Grontmij TM
Climate, acoustics and safety: Peutz
Contractor: Wessels Zeist
Project area: 7,300
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Luuk Kramer

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© Stephan Wyckoff

Architects: Franz ZT gmbh + Atelier Mauch gmbh
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project area: 2,630 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Stephan Wyckoff

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© Stephan Lucas

Great sports architecture from 2009 in our sixth selection of previously featured projects! Check them all after the break.

Sports and Leisure Center in Saint-Cloud / KOZ Architectes
This building is not lacking in self-confdence. As proof, you only have to take the second left along the Avenue de Longchamps from the Les Côteaux tramway Station in Saint-Cloud (read more…) read more »

© Vladimir Topouzanov

Architects: Saia Barbarese Toupouzanov Architectes - Mario Saia, Dino Barbarese, Vladimir Topouzanov
Location: Montreal, Canada
Project team: Dino Barbarese, Patrick de Barros, Wassili Dudan, David Griffin, Virginie Legast, Mathias Loscos, Yvan Marion, Donald Marquis, Maio Saia, Catherine Simard, Vladimir Topouzanov, Sam Yip
Engineer: AECOM
Client: Ville de Montréal
Project area: 2,680 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Marc Cramer, Frédéric Saia, Vladimir Topouzanov

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© Carlos Garmendia Fernández

Architects: Garmendia Arquitectos – Carlos Garmendia, Iñaki Tanco, Imanol García de Albéniz, Rafa Arrizabalaga
Location: Barakaldo, Bizkaia, Spain
Project area: 1,600 sqm
Photographs: Carlos Garmendia Fernández

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© Fernando Alda

Architects: sol89 / María González y Juanjo López de la Cruz
Location: Barriada de Palmete, Sevilla, Spain
Project area: 1,451 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2009
Photographs: Fernando Alda

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© Chester Weir

This new 40,000 sqf state-of-the-art facility, located along Seattle’s light rail line, anchors Seattle Housing Authority’s (SHA) Rainier Vista housing redevelopment and has become a vital neighborhood community center. In collaboration with SHA the site plan was designed to maximize the neighborhood pedestrian connections and public amenities, including lighted paths, a new public play area and play field, and pedestrian plazas.

Architects: Weinstein A|U
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Design Principal-in-Charge: Ed Weinstein, FAIA
Project Architect/Manager: Jeff Boone, AIA, LEED AP
Principal-in-Charge of Quality Control: Milton Won, AIA
Design Staff: Chester Weir, AIA and Rosa Folla
General Contractor: Sellen Construction Company
Structural: KPFF
Landscape and Civil: SvR Design Company
MEPFP: WSP Flack + Kurtz
Sustainability: O’Brien & Company
Daylight Analysis: Integrated Design Lab
Specifications: Lottie Eskilsson
Cost Estimating: Davis Langdon
Owner: Boys & Girls Clubs of King County
Project Area: 158,914 sqf (site), 40,265 sqf (building)
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Michael Burns, Chester Weir

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Courtesy of Na3 Studio di Architettura

The Municipal Sports Centre in Ladispoli by Na3 Studio di Architettura is a building that aims to redevelop the site within which it is situated. Currently in disuse, the architects use a clear set of materials to establish an architectural presence for a public program that will give benefit to the entire city of Ladispoli with minimal environmental impact.

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© Miran Kambič

Architects: Enota
Location: Podčetrtek, Slovenia
Project team: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Maruša Zupančič, Polona Ruparčič, Anna Kravcova, Zana Starovič, Tomi Maslovarić, Dean Jukić, Darja Zubac, Sabina Sakelšek, Nuša Završnik Šilec, Marko Volf, Esta Matković, Andrej Oblak
Structural engineering: Elea iC
Mechanical services: Nom biro
Electrical planning: Forte Inženiring
Project area: 3,570 sqm
Project year: 2007 – 2010
Photographs: Miran Kambič

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© João Ferrand

Architects: Barbosa & Guimarães / José António Barbosa & Pedro Lopes Guimarães
Location: Povoação, São Miguel, Açores, Portugal
Collaboration: Miguel Pimenta, Paula Fonseca, José Marques, Henrique Dias, Marta Horta, Luís Monteiro, Amandine Evrard
Structural Engineering: Época / António Martins
Hydraulic Engineering: dhv / Dias da Costa
Electrical Engineering: rga / Paulo Oliveira
Mechanical Engineering: rga / Pedro Albuquerque
Contractor: Irmãos Cavaco
Project Direction: Tolda Abreu, João Ribeiro
Project Year: 2007-2008
Photographs: João Ferrand

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© Hanns Joosten

Architects: Dürig AG
Location: Helen Keller Strasse 20, 8051 Zürich, Switzerland
Landscape Architects: Topotek 1
Client: The City of Zürich, represented by: Grün Stadt Zürich, Immobilien-Bewirtschaftung, Amt für Hochbauten
Project area: 100,200 sqm
Project year: 2004-2010
Photographs: Hanns Joosten, Ruedi Walti

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Courtesy of blaanc borderless architecture

Portuguese office blaanc borderless architecture, in collaboration with Mexican-based architects CaeiroCapurso, have been awarded a $25,000 USD funding by the international competition Gamechangers for their Project dedicated to building a Rural Sports Center in San Pedro Apóstol in Oaxaca, México for its underprivileged community. The competition was promoted and financed by Architecture for Humanity in partnership with Nike Inc. in another initiative to increase social cohesion through sports. The project is scheduled for construction in 2011.

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Built for the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, the Yoyogi National Gymnasium has become an architectural icon for its distinctive design.  Designed by one of Japan’s most famous modernist architects, Kenzo Tange, the gymnasium is a hybridization of western modernist aesthetics and traditional Japanese architecture.

Tange’s innovative structural design creates dramatic sweeping curves that appear to effortlessly drape from two large, central supporting cables. It’s dynamically suspended roof and rough materials form one of the most iconic building profiles in the world.

More on the Yoyogi National Gymnasium by Kenzo Tange after the break. read more »