Sports

Kevin Daly Architects builds crinkled complex for UCLA’s basketball teams

January 6, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
UCLA Basketball Facility by Kevin Daly Architects
UCLA Basketball Facility by Kevin Daly Architects

California-based firm Kevin Daly Architects has designed a sports complex for UCLA’s basketball teams with fin-like panels and a wavy roofline with numerous skylights. The Mo Ostin Basketball Center is a joint basketball facility for the women’s and men’s teams of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), both of which are currently in the top five

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Dezeen’s top 10 stadiums and sports centres of 2018

December 14, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

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

November 28, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

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

October 5, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

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

September 18, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

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

August 10, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

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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