Sports Architecture
Architectural design of sports facilities, stadiums, training centers, and recreational spaces.
Giannone Petricone Associates Wraps North Toronto's Oldest House in a Veil of Curved Glass
In Toronto, an 1828 Regency Cottage regains its formal symmetry while an undulating glass addition, built for a glass-trade client, reshapes the garden.
DARE – Design Arena + Research Wraps a 30-Year-Old Bangkok House in Curved Screens to Face a New Road
A three-decade-old suburban Bangkok home turns its back on a new public road, trading exposure for curved screens, a pond and a double-height core.
SENAC São Paulo and Estudio Guto Requena Wrap a 119 m² Lounge for Lingering in Red Fabric and Oval Light
A temporary São Paulo interior where a U-shaped sofa, stretched-fabric walls and oval lights turn 119 m² into a room built for staying and talking.
Valle Cornejo Arquitectos Crowns Concepción's 1962 Collao Stadium with a Continuous Ring of Steel and Membrane
In Concepción, Chile, Valle Cornejo reworks the 1962 Collao bowl with a continuous cantilevered steel roof, a panel facade and a new civic forecourt.
BVA and GVAA Give a Santiago Amateur Football Club Cantilevered Grandstands with Changing Rooms Tucked Beneath
In Quinta Normal, Chile, steel truss canopies and stepped concrete stands turn a bare amateur field into a dignified neighbourhood stadium.
Estudio ABS Builds BENJA House in Argentina Around a Spiral Stair, a Concrete Shell and Walls of Glass
In Argentina, a 270 m² house by Estudio ABS lets one formal-structural move, a concrete shell around a spiral stair, organise the whole plan.
Connect: A Kit-of-Parts Playground Built by the Children Who Use It
A modular system of poles, ropes, and reclaimed materials turns refugee camp play into an act of collective construction and spatial learning.
In One, Many, In Many, One: A Shipping Container Becomes a Modular Play System
A travelling container carries lightweight play volumes into refugee settlements, then stays behind as a community anchor.
Reconstituted Play: A Modular Kit That Lets Refugee Children Build Their Own Playground
Triangular masses, recycled inner tubes, and ropes form an open-ended spatial vocabulary that children rearrange to create their own play landscapes.
Cylinder Park: Turning Surplus Buckets into a Modular Play System for Refugee Camps
A shortlisted entry in Re-imagining Play 2020, Cylinder Park extracts architectural potential from discarded plastic buckets to build adaptable playgrounds
Kids Need Fun + Play: A Bamboo Kit of Parts That Lets Children Write Their Own Playground
Olivia Webb's shortlisted entry builds play from a repeatable 2 x 2 x 2 metre bamboo cube that climbs, shelters, plants and gathers as sites demand.
Play: Fragments of Their World: Remembered Architecture Rebuilt as a Modular Playground for Refugee Camps
Tom Gardner abstracts domes, arches and towers from the homelands of displaced families into a kit of child-scaled play parts for camp settlements.
