The Grid

An esports network arena - Design Competition

Toronto, Canada

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Winner

1 Entry

Selin and Hakan

Sphere Arena

E-sports programs are unified under one roof to create a collective public space. A central spherical screen connects gaming, viewing, and social areas, transforming play from an individual digital act into a shared spatial experience shaped by interaction and togetherness.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Sefa Efe and AyseSena

KINESIA

This project approaches the e-sports arena not as a structure divided by rigid boundaries, but as a continuous spatial system. The audience is not defined as passive; spectators can engage with the event from various points and in multiple ways. The architecture avoids imposed direction, allowing users to construct their own spatial experience.

Shortlisted

6 Entries

TARIK and Beste

Nexus Arena

Nexus Arena transforms e-sports from a screen-based activity into a physical and public experience. Organized around movement and circulation, the project blurs the boundaries between spectator and player through interactive spaces and screens, integrating gaming culture into everyday urban life.

zeynep rana and doga

CONTINUUM

This project reinterprets temporal discontinuity in esports buildings as a spatial organization problem. By integrating an arena, gaming hub, and public spaces through a continuous movement path, the design supports overlapping programs and sustained activity beyond event days.

EmreOlcaytu and Ege

E-Effect : An E-Sports Arena Proposal

E-Effect is a conceptual e-sports arena for Toronto that redefines the arena typology by prioritizing the spectator. A rigid digital cube is disrupted by fluid interior forms, creating an immersive, bodily experience where physical space and virtual reality merge.

Enes and yagiz

Van-Der ARENA

Van-Der Arena responds to the abstraction created by the digital nature of e-sports by transforming virtual actions into a shared physical experience. Rather than functioning as a conventional arena, it gathers these actions within tangible architectural spaces. Modular units serve players and spectators, while collective areas beneath two hills enable commu

Habiba

Realms Arena

Realms Arena merges the virtual and the physical into a single immersive playground. It transforms traditional and electronic sports through adaptable architecture. Fields that shift, walls that climb, and roofs that race. Every surface becomes part of the game, from holographic projections to player pods suspended above the arena. The result is a living, se

Zehra

co-Loop

This project redefines e-sports as a contemporary collective ritual. A 500-seat arena forms the core, intersected by two concrete volumes housing technical and programmatic spaces. Between them, a public threshold shaped by steel ramps enables transitions between individual, social, and collective roles through spatial experience.