Sports Architecture
Architectural design of sports facilities, stadiums, training centers, and recreational spaces.
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.
The Main Dream: A Recycled Plastic Kit That Lets Refugee Children Build Their Own Playground
Thirty-centimetre interlocking cubes that connect on three axes turn play into construction, letting children author the spaces they occupy.
Modular Playground: An Open Construction Logic for Children's Play in Refugee Camps
Till Connor's Editor's Choice entry turns a jointed tube frame into a playable system that camps can build from whatever local materials they have.
Wander to Wonder: A Modular Kit That Distributes Play Across Kutupalong Refugee Camp
Caroline Ho's timber frames, lattice screens and decks slip into intersections, edges and gaps, turning daily routes through the camp into places of play.
GAM Arquitetos Builds a Coastal House in Brazil That Doubles as a Living Archive
In Praia do Forte, a timber-wrapped beach house organizes domestic life around memory, collection, and the Atlantic horizon.
