Foster + Partners designs golden stadium for Qatar World Cup final
Qatar has revealed plans for the 80,000-seater Lusail Stadium, designed by Foster + Partners to host the final of the FIFA World Cup 2022. Read more
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Dezeen’s top 10 stadiums and sports centres of 2018
Thanks to the World Cup, the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl, 2018 was a great year for sports architecture. Deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft continues our review of 2018 by rounding up the 10 best stadiums and sports centres of the year. Luzhniki Stadium, Russia, by Speech The venue for both the opening game and final of the FIFA World
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BIG puts “the park back in ballpark” with grass-roofed stadium for Oakland A’s
Danish firm BIG has released visuals for a new baseball stadium in Oakland, California, and a separate masterplan to redevelop the city’s Coliseum sports ground. The ballpark will provide a new home for the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball (MLB) team – also known as the Oakland A’s sited at Oakland’s harbourside Howard Terminal. The stadium design includes
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Giant roof tops Montreal golf clubhouse by Architecture49
Canadian studio Architecture49 has covered this minimal golf clubhouse in Montreal with a massive wooden roof, to shelter driving ranges so members can play in bad weather. Architecture49’s local office was enlisted to design the clubhouse for Golf Exécutif Montréal on Nuns’ Island – a “green oasis” located in the city’s Saint Lawrence River. Measuring 855 square metres,
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Bates Smart plans to suspend a stadium above Sydney’s Central Station
Australian architecture firm Bates Smart has revealed a concept for a 45,000-seat stadium, which would be built above Central Station in Sydney. Bates Smart designed the concept stadium as a city-centre alternative to the New South Wales State Government’s plan to rebuild the city’s existing Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park. According to the firm, placing the stadium above the station would tie
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Chequered blue sports venue reinvigorates impoverished Mexico City neighbourhood
Mexican design studio All Arquitectura has created a vibrant football and basketball court for one of the poorest and most violent areas of Mexico City. All Arquitectura upgraded the La Doce venue in collaboration with Love.fútbol, a non-profit organisation that restores and regenerates sports fields in marginalised areas of cities around the world. This project
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12 stadiums that will host matches at the World Cup 2018 in Russia
With the FIFA World Cup 2018 kicking off today in Russia, here’s a look at all 12 of the stadiums that will be hosting games over the next month. Starting today, 14 June, and continuing until 15 July, the contest will see 32 national football teams compete for the coveted World Cup trophy. Matches will take place in
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Moscow’s historic Luzhniki Stadium refurbished for World Cup 2018
The opening game of the FIFA World Cup 2018 takes place today inside Russia’s national stadium, which has been overhauled by Moscow studio Speech. Built in 1956, Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow hosted key events during the Olympic Games in 1980 and is home to the Russian national football team. Speech has renovated the structure to meet FIFA standards, required for
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Domed sports hall by Sporadical is covered in scale-like aluminium shingles
Reflective aluminium panels cover the rounded shell of this school sports hall near Prague, helping to disguise its scale. The sports hall, designed by local architecture office Sporadical, adjoins a recently modernised and extended primary school in the town of Dolní Břežany, to the south of the Czech capital. In addition to providing a space for
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Demountable stadium hosts opening ceremony for Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
The opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics takes place today, inside a pentagonal temporary stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 35,000-seater arena will host both the opening and closing ceremonies of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, which are being hosted just over a mile away, at the Alpesina ski resort. The £44 million stadium, which can be toured virtually
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