With its characteristic industrial buildings, the former site of the Regional Energy Supply Company in Hilversum has always had its own identity. The gasworks site was originally situated outside the city perimeter, but gradually became enclosed by residential developments. With the relocation of the gasworks, the opportunity arose to redevelop the site and give it a new name: Villa Industria.
Mecanoo created a masterplan for 357 homes – partly affordable housing, partly owner-occupied, small-scale businesses and sporting facilities. Inspired by the industrial heritage of the site, the area has a recognisable identity once again.
The Cistercian monastery in Wettingen is a cultural monument of national importance. When the cantonal school moved into the monastery premises in 1979, the school’s sports hall with a swimming pool was constructed on the common land outside the monastery area. To maintain the historical view of the monastery, the sports hall and swimming pool were built underground, around a deep courtyard with longitudinal sides that provided the adjoining gymnasiums with daylight. The planned extension of the sports halls is also required to adhere to this principle and is thus being developed underground.
The Hafnia Sports Hall is a transformation of the former ‘Club Denmark Hall’. Here the original glue laminated wooden beams that span northern Europe’s biggest sports hall has been strengthened.
Under the arched roof the inner life of the hall is transformed into a multifunctional sports universe with small and large football pitches, beach volley courts, handball and badminton courts, fitness area and a climbing wall for school, leisure and elite sport. Heated, semi-heated and unheated areas are organized around the hall’s bright red clubhouse.
Exactly a year since the solemn tapping of the building stone, a new ice stadium was officially opened in Prague today. Over the past twelve months, private investors have managed to build up-to-date facilities for skaters on two ice surfaces in Strašnice, Prague, in Přetlucká street. The project is newly named ŠKODA ICERINK and is intended primarily for the general public, but also for the training of figure skating and ice hockey youth. A full-fledged winter stadium grew up in Prague for the first time in fifteen years.
His visual face was defined by the renowned studio of DRESS • ŽÁK, who took on work on the exterior and interior of the complex. The project consists of two rinks. The trainings will be led by the ambassadors of the project, the skating champion of Europe Tomáš Verner and the junior world ice hockey champion Martin Holý.
The purpose, from the beginning, has been to integrate the playing fields, its lighting towers and all the buildings of the training center, creating this way a sequenced and recognizable set that, incorporating all these elements, is able to generate a new harmonious, exact and integrated landscape.
We are not in favor of opting for a solution by accumulation, in which the aforementioned elements find a relative position more or less ordered or hazardous and avoiding the simple juxtaposition of independent elements, that is one of our first purposes. Our proposal aims to provide unity of landscape and geometric coherence to the whole. The large platform is composed by eighteen regular-size football fields, two eleven-a-side fields and a 650 meter wide porch covering the six buildings, which give the desired coherence and landscape unity to the whole. Furthermore, the addition of buildings and the defined entrances gives it a certain independence and possibility of growth.
Jianye Football Town, a town of sports aesthetics in the Cherry Valley Scenic Area, Erqi District, Zhengzhou, integrates in it the natural scenery, sports, recreation and culture. According to the construction plan of the football town, a Jianye Football Town Tourist Center of about 3000m2 will be built at the main entrance to the football town on the platform southwest of Houzhang Highway. It will be the reception and exhibition space for the whole football town in the future.
The tourist center lies at the entrance and represents the image of the football town, and the owner, Jianye Group, naturally hopes that it is unique, eye-catching and unforgettable. The difficulty in the design lies in how the architect can design an original building that blends perfectly with the local environment.
Project: Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
Location: Erqi District, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Photography: Hu Yijie
Construction Design: SHUISHI Engineering – Construction team (Zhu Quanlin, Du Xiawei, Yu Gang, Yin Jin, Li Hui)
Landscape Design: SHUISHI Landscape – Technology R&D Department (Shi Li, Huang Jianjun, Zhang Yongliang, Wang Yan, Liu Weiruo, Tan Xuewei, Wu Jingxian, Jiang Sunding, Zhai Dan, Zhang Yangxu, Wang Wenzhen)
Architecture Design(Client): Li Shuaifang
Landscape Design(Client): Han Qian
Interior Design(Client): Zhang Xin
Building Engineer(Client): Su Shengyong, Zhao Hua, Fan Weiqiang, Li Ning, Yue Xiaoming
On the periphery of a nondescript residential area in Groningen, Gianni Cito designed a large building for two schools, two childcare centres and a playground. From the outset, the end users played an important role in this project, engaging in regular dialogue with the architect during workshops. One of the significant outcomes was the proposal to share out-of-school care facilities, play rooms, gym, kitchen, staff room, science classroom and the playground.
Nowadays, people in large urban centers tend to lose contact with nature, while rural areas are prone to disappear due to migration towards big cities. The city of Badong on the banks of the Yangtze River presents an integral solution for both scenarios. Even more, its stunning views of the surrounding mountains and river make of this location a unique corner of the world.
The Jardin des serres d’Auteuil built in the nineteenth century is characterized by the botanical greenhouses built by Jean Camille Formigé, architect for the garden walks and plants department of Paris (Service des Promenades et Plantations), who created a historical landmark made of steel and glass emblematic of the architecture of the time.
By contrast, the eastern part of the garden is marked by the presence of technical buildings and temporary greenhouses of no cultural interest.
The sports project of the Fédération Française de Tennis and the Direction des Espaces Verts et de l’Environnement de la Ville de Paris takes its place here based on 3 characteristics:
– build a high-performance building for sport and its public
– improve the botanical character of the garden by building new greenhouses
– enter into dialogue with Formigé’s historic buildings
Article source: MCEA | Manuel Costoya Estudio de Arquitectura
The project of the EsPuig d'en Valls Sports Centre was conceived in two distinct phases; the first of these consisted of the covering of the two existing outdoor courts; the second was the design and execution of the enclosure of its perimeter.
When, during the execution of the first phase, we receive the brief for the design of the enclosure, our main aim was to achieve an element of fusion between the interior and its broader setting, so as not to lose the essence of this outdoor space for the practice of sport, which had been used as such by teams from EsPuig d'en Valls for years.
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