Sports and Recreational Facilities
Qualcomm Stadium, the San Diego Chargers' current home. Photo: SD Dirk/Creative Commons
The project will be funded primarily by a tax increase on hotel stays.
A proposed 300-meter-tall tower, to be located at Dubai's Marina, would offer extreme-sports enthusiasts the chance to scale its heights, rappel its sides, and base jump from three different platforms. Rendering: 10 Design
The design incorporates Everest-like base camps for different skill levels.
Images courtesy Guy Hollaway Architects. Click photos to enlarge. (Click here to enlarge lede image).
Guy Hollaway Architects designed an indoor 10,700-sf park in Folkestone, England, to accommodate...
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Image courtesy Minnesota Timberwolves.
The Wolves, Charlotte Hornets, and Sacramento Kings have new multi-paneled center-hung displays p...
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Courtesy HOK. Click here to enlarge.
HOK and TAC Arquitectes designed a basketball palace that will have intimate seating inside and p...
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All renderings courtesy Populous. Click photos to enlarge.
The plan, led by Populous, includes a 714,000-sf arena and a 30-acre mixed-use development.
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Photo via Washington Redskins
The location isn't yet determined, but the new stadium will have a moat for kayaking.
The new DePaul Arena at McCormick Place Event Center. Courtesy Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Developers and city officials envision $250 million of annual growth, but the figure assumes that...
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Westin hotel and transit center at Denver International Airport, Denver. Photo courtesy Gensler
Technology is running wild in Gensler’s 2016 forecast, as things like virtual reality, "smart" bu...
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Wavegarden’s Surf Snowdonia in Wales uses an underwater foil to generate waves. Photo: Wavegarden
Wave-making technologies vie for attention, as surfing is shortlisted for 2020 Olympic Games.
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Factory for J57 Mini Sky City, Changsha, China. Photo: BSB
BD+C’s inaugural Game Changers report highlights today’s pacesetting projects, from a pr...
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The recently constructed basketball arena at Ole Miss, The Pavilion, exudes sophistication due to...
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Photo: Mike McBride/Creative Commons
The franchise, which is considering relocation if it can’t work out a stadium deal in the Bay Are...
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Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta. Rendering: HOK
BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest sports sector design and construction firms, as reported...
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This AIA CES Discovery course discusses the six elements of an EIFS wall assembly; common EIFS fa...
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Proposed NFL stadium in Inglewood, the future home for the new Los Angeles Rams. Rendering: HKS Sports & Entertainment
The Rams, formerly of St. Louis, will move into a new stadium possibly by 2019—and they might hav...
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The Redskins have played at the Maryland-based FedEx Field since 1997, but the team feels that it is time for a new home. Photo: dctourism/Creative Commons
The Danish firm is short on designing football stadiums, but it has led other impressive large sc...
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An open-air plaza inside AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami has been converted into a solar pavilion that makes the space more usable for revenue-generating functions. Courtesy NRG Energy and The Heat Group.
NRG Energy teams with Miami Heat to transform an underused open-air plaza and reinforce the facil...
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Rendering via Japan Sports Council (via Dezeen).
Japan chose between projects from Japanese architects Kuma and Toyo Ito. The decision has been me...
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Design A, from Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. Images: Japan Sports Council
Both cost less than the Zaha Hadid proposal that was scrapped over the summer.
House of Sports in Ardsley, N.Y., is home to a soccer field on the third floor of a downtown buil...
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Photos courtesy Mary Free Bed YMCA
The 116,200-sf Mary Free Bed YMCA in Grand Rapids is accessable for everyone who uses the facilit...
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Rendering courtesy HKS
U.S. Bank Stadium will have an ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) pneumatic roof, a durable, fle...
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Renderings courtesy Herzog & de Meuron (via ArchDaily)
As many as 264 brick piers will line the perimeter of the stadium and extend to a steel ring perc...
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Edmonton's new Rogers Place, future home of the NHL's Oilers. Renderings courtesy Edmonton Arena Corp
The home of the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers made Curbed’s list of 11 next-generation stadiums in North...
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The design of the building is made of a set of two parallelepiped-shaped volumes. Renderings courtesy of Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
The design of the building is made of a set of two parallelepip...
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The 107-year-old Subiaco Oval could be transformed into a man-made lake meant for surfing. Renderings courtesy MJA Studio, via Inhabitat. Video from SubiSurf Park.
The Subiaco Oval, which was built in 1908, could become the Subi Surf Park, a complex with apartm...
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Though the stadium is open air, the seating is completely covered by a Teflon roof. Renderings courtesy Massimo Guidotti
Architect Massimo Guidotti created a sinuous design for the stadium, which can support up to 16,0...
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Zaha Hadid's original concept for Tokyo's Olympic Stadium. Rendering courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects
After resubmitting a bid, the firm will not design the main venue for the 2020 Olympics after all...
The latest St. Louis Rams stadium renderings, released Sept. 1, courtesy HOK
The stadium's newest features have been unveiled by HOK, which could give the Rams one of the mos...
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