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Dec 2009
By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Architecture News ,Awarded Competitions ,Sports Architecture , Croatia, njiric+ arhitekti, Za Greb 2012, Zagreb
njiric+ arhitekti‘s design for a large stadium has been nicknamed as the “Blue Volcano” by the public and the press, an overwhelming built form that creates a presence in the city, a new landmark for the area. The stadium was conceived not as a building typology but rather as a topography. Using the natural undulation of the landscape, the new civic arena is housed within an artificial hill made of recycled rubber and blue pigment sprayed onto corrugated aluminium sheets.
More about the stadium after the break.
