Steven Alan’s collaborations with Nike Sports Wear rarely disappoint and their new jacket/blazer combination is no exception, bringing together NSW functional elements with the designer’s understated style. On top of a nicely balanced silhouette, the highly technical Ventile cotton shell features an array of solid details to keep you…
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The Ball Claw is a quick and easy way to organize your sport balls in the garage, basement, or any other imaginable place the device can be mounted. Preserve the life of your equipment while hanging them in an organized fashion. It’s also a great interior addition to any bachelor pad – display your prized signed collections in a clean, minimal way!
Designer: John R. S. Kurcheski
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Un paio di giorni fa per la laurea di mio fratello ho voluto regalargli uno dei miei poster preferiti: il leggendario Michael Jordan Wings. Non trovandolo in tempi brevi in formato 1:1 come l’originale, l’ho ricreato al volo con qualche ritocchino di photoshop.
La resa sembra ok così ho pensato di passarvi il file originale e renderlo disponibile per chiunque volesse stamparlo.
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It would appear that the way to lead with light might soon be by way of crutch – at least that’s how the designers behind the Leader would have it. The full name of these devices is “Leader Outdoor Crutches” and their designers, Cathy Wen and Linxi Lee, have made it clear that there will be no more darkness on the trail as long as they’re at the head of the pack.
Leader Outdoor Crutches aim to not just allow you to make your way through the woods with that extra bit of push up on the stick, but with some much-needed illumination at night as well. Just pop in the lamp and you’ll be headed to your camp site in no time. This invention would certainly save us some stumble time heading up the stairs after some late-night laundry too, mind you – perhaps a home edition is in order!
Designers: Cathy Wen and Linxi Lee
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Danish architecture studio CEBRA has revealed a proposal for a snowflake-shaped ski dome that would be the biggest in the world, with three kilometres of slopes arching over a river in the Danish city of Randers.
Designed by CEBRA for the ski travel agency Danski, Skidome Denmark would have six indoor and two outdoor slopes on its three centrally connected arches, which resemble a six-armed snowflake.
If constructed, each arch would stretch 700 metres across the river Gudenåen, with the highest arch rising 110 metres above the ground. The biggest ski dome in the world at present is in Dubai – but at 22,500 square metres, Ski Dubai would be easily eclipsed by the 70,000 square metre Skidome Denmark if it goes ahead.
Unlike most indoor ski slopes, which tend to be built with few or no windows, the Skidome would have a perforated facade to give skiers a view over the surrounding river and meadows.
The topography of the six slopes is based on the most popular pistes of the Alpe d’Huez ski resort in France, but the architects say the slopes could be altered over time to give skiers a different experience on each visit.
The Skidome is also intended to be a useful addition to the city’s wider infrastructure. ”We have placed and designed the ski dome over the river to connect the different neighborhoods in the town of Randers,” said Danksi representative Simon Oscar Andersen. “Actually, we give a whole lot to the city – the world’s biggest ski dome, and a whole new connection across the river, which solves a lot of infrastructural problems for the city.”
The Skidome would also offer facilities for skateboarding and BMXing, as well as a landscaped park on the roof.
Earlier this year we reported on CEBRA’s proposal for a science and technology centre full of curving green ramps inside a former mineral water bottling plant in Copenhagen.
Images are from CEBRA.
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Here’s some more information from the architects:
Danish architecture practice CEBRA has designed Skidome Denmark – a vision for the world’s biggest ski dome in the city of Randers for ski travelling agency Danski. The proposal offers over 3 km of indoor and outdoor slopes, freestyle park, hotel, restaurant and shops, covering a total area of 100.000 m2.
CEBRA’s ambitious proposal consists of three centrally connected arches, which resemble the basic shape of a six-armed snowflake. The arches each span 700 m across the river Gudenåen and the top arch’s highest point rises 110 m over ground, creating a distinctive landmark for the entire region, bringing a piece of the Alps to Denmark.
The basic idea of Skidome Denmark is to share and pass on the joy of skiing to the Danes by creating spectacular indoor facilities that bring skiers as close as possible to the experience of hurtling down a mountain side in the Alps. In order to meet this ambition, the architects have been inspired reversely, so to speak. Most ski domes around the world are designed from the inside with no or very few windows. However, an essential part of the skiing experience consists in being able to enjoy the surrounding scenery. The proposal’s high-rise composition of three arches combined with a filigree façade structure allows for spectacular views over Randers and the river-meadow area.
Skidome Denmark brings, quite literally, a piece of the Alps to Denmark: The slopes are developed in association with Alpe d’Huez ski resort in France, and the gradients are copied directly from the most popular pistes. The arches contain a total of six slopes with real snow and varying degrees of difficulty, so that skiers of all ages will be able to find challenges according to skills and experience. Every piste has its own chair lift and the three arches are conjoint by an elevator for transporting skiers between the different levels. In order to ensure variation in the landscape over time, it is possible to transform the pistes’ topography, providing visitors with a different experience each time they visit the ski dome.
Besides its primary function as a ski park, the vision for Skidome Denmark is designed to form an addition to Randers’ infrastructure, connecting the city across the natural barrier formed by the river Gudenåen. It is the aim of the concept that the dome can be used and enjoyed by everyone – any time of the day, any time of the year. Thus, the arches’ exterior roof surfaces are an integrated part of the design equal to the interior ski slopes. The top arch’s roof offers two black pistes, allowing outdoor skiing even during the summer. The middle arch is shaped like an urban playground with street sport facilities for skateboarding, BMX etc., while the bottom arch has a green landscape roof, which like a raised city park invites to a wide range of leisure activities.
Name: Skidome Denmark
Commission: Private
Client:  Danski
Type: Conceptual proposal
Location: Randers, DK
Area:  100,000 m2
Max. capacity: 3000 guests
Facilities: 6 indoor and 2 outdoor ski slopes (total length of 3020 m), 1 freestyle park
Hotel, restaurant, bar, shops
Public street sports park and green park
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To create a full-length running track inside this refurbished gym in the Czech Republic, Prague studio QARTA Architektura added a translucent extension that projects out on stilts (+ slideshow).
Tyršův Stadion was first constructed in the 1960s as part of an athletics arena in Opava, but the building had fallen into disrepair and QARTA Architektura was asked to upgrade the facilities.
The gym covers the whole first floor, but isn’t large enough for all the athletes that want to use it. “Before the gym was too short to do inside sprints, long jumping and pole vaulting,” architect Tomáš Němec told Dezeen. “Because of this we extended the running track out of the building.”
The architects used polycarbonate for the translucent extension, but covered the existing facade with metal sheets and fibre cement panels. “The foundations were badly constructed, so these materials were chosen to resist the slight moving and cracking of the building,” said Němec.
Entrances are located on both sides of the building so that it can be used as a gateway to the outdoor track.
Other sports buildings we’ve featured recently include an indoor football ground in Portugal and a sports centre with a rooftop tennis court in Poland.
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Here’s some more information from QARTA architektura:
Tyršův stadion / QARTA architektura
Qarta architektura designed a multi-purpose athletic gym within the complex Tyršův stadion in Opava. The old gym as a part of the athletic stadium in Opava, now Tyršův stadion from the time of normalisation socialism, built early in the 60s, was ready for demolition. Investor, the city of Opava, in the framework of the promotion of sport and culture, came to entering the regeneration of the gym. The work took Qarta architektura, whose undeniable advantage in the implementation was the fact that the studio knows the area very well.
The building is designed to be a natural gateway for the athletes when they enter the stadium. At the entrance to the gym, athletes are guided intuitively into locker rooms with complete facilities and then they can choose between a workout at the gym, or so-called “gate of champions” to enter the stadium. The whole building is formed from three blocks. One of them is a part of the indoor running track, which seems levitating in the air.
Above: building before renovation
The gym includes facilities such as indoor running track 60m, the long jump pits, height for the pole vault, universal surface that enables ball games. But mainly is a gym designed for athletes, the surface is in such standard to allow running and walking in track shoes. Another equipments are facilities for archery, fitness and room for judo with the tatami surface.
Above: building before renovation
Architects: QARTA architektura, David Wittassek, Jiří Řezák
Location: Opava, Czech Republic
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Roman Polášek
Project Area: 2 244 sqm
Collaborators: Kateřina Immrová, Petr Kaňák, Petr Košárek, Tomáš Jung
Interior Design: David Wittassek
Budget: €1 600 000
Above: site plan
Above: ground floor plan – click above for larger image
Above: first floor plan – click above for larger image
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Designer Navik Lal presents a fabulous new look at the protection of the wrists of the hardcore snowboarder. This is Morph Armour, made to create a protective barrier around your wrist while you retain near-full mobility throughout your arms so you can continue to be the sports beast you know you can be. This solution takes on what Lal notes is one of the most common mishaps in the snowboarding world, making the 88% of the snowboarding population think twice about how much of a hinderance safety has to be.
Morph Armour is a wrist protection device – or pair of devices, if you’re wearing them on both arms, of course. With this armor you’ve got 2 splints with multiple segments joined by what Lal calls “living hinges.” This moving polyethylene splint is moulded to the contours of your arm for a personalized fit, with an 8 degree angle on the hinge point of 6 individual sections for an overall wrist movement range of a lovely 96 degrees.
Each of the units is affixed to your arm with an 8 point lace system so it’s not going to slip off while you’re burning up the slopes, and a removable neoprene insert works to give you extended comfort through cushioning. This unit is still currently in its conceptual phases but very well may be a real live product sooner than later!
Designer: Navik Lal
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The fourth iteration of Victory Journal—a sports publication born out of creative agency Doubleday & Cartwright—focuses squarely on Muhammad Ali. With a cover image of the Champ by Thomas Hoepker, “The Greatest” is a large format newsprint issue that commands a hefty presence. The journal is dedicated to sports…
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Portuguese studio Comoco Architects has converted a warehouse in Coimbra once used for storing industrial materials into an indoor football ground (+ slideshow).
A blanket of bright green turf stretches along the length of the building, creating a pair of pitches beneath the arched metal trusses that support the roof.
At the end of these pitches, the architects have inserted a new wooden structure, which contains changing rooms, showers and reception areas.
“We took advantage of the warehouse’s material rawness and rough surfaces to introduce a softer element within it, an element made with light materials and smooth surfaces, chiefly by using MDF board panels,” architect Nelson Mota told Dezeen.
A wooden grid forms a trellis-like ceiling over the new rooms and bare light bulbs hang down in the spaces between.
Mota explained how the high floor-to-ceiling height of the existing warehouse allowed them to “explore the roof of the new facility as a permeable, or even absent, surface, where the various compartments would be protected not at regular ceiling height, but high above by the arched metallic ceiling.”
The only change the architects made to the exterior of the building was to punch an entrance through one of the walls, which they’ve surrounded with a boxy metal frame.
Other indoor football grounds we’ve featured include a sports centre in Vienna and a training centre in South Africa.
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Photography is by Fernando Guerra.
Here’s a project description from Comoco:
Our approach to the design of “N10-Eiras” indoor sports facility was determined twofold: on the one hand by the specific characteristics of the existing industrial pavilion in which we ought to insert our solution.
On the other hand by the brief, which asked for three main areas: reception; changing rooms and showers; and a party room.
One volume was created, organizing the two main areas at both sides of the reception area, which is also where the entrance is located.
The new volume thus created occupies the entire width of the existing pavilion, and its own width results from the subtraction of the football field from the pavilion’s total length.
The building system defines the materialization of the volume. A porticoed frame made of American pine wood beams and columns creates the basic structure.
The infill of this structure, both in the roof as in the walls, is made through the use of MDF boards, assembled in such a way as to perform both structural and formal roles in the overall construction.
The raw use of the MDF boards is followed by a straightforward use of white ceramic tiles in the changing rooms and showers, and by the design of the furniture components, which are also made of raw pine wood elements and black lacquered MDF panels.
The layout of the illumination devices was designed in order to accomplish an intense and expressive plasticity out of the volume’s formal and material characteristics.
A tunnel-like element pierces the pavilion’s existing wall to announce in the outside the entrance to the facility.
Location: Coimbra
Client: N10 Indoor
Architecture: Luís Miguel Correia, Nelson Mota, Susana Constantino
Project / Construction: 2011
Area: 2385.00m2
Total Investment: €1.000.000,00
Construction: € 200.000,00
Engineering: MyOption
Building Contractor: Timotec; Flexifusão, Lda
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Stray balls aren’t a problem on the rooftop tennis court of this sports centre in western Poland by PL.architekci, thanks to the cage that covers the building (+ slideshow).
“The plot was too small to locate a tennis court on the ground, so we decided to put it on the roof,” architect Bartek Bajon told Dezeen. “We designed an eight-metre-high cage to protect people on the ground from falling tennis balls.”
The metal cage wraps the facade and roof of the two-storey building, creating the framework for a row of shutters that can be fastened shut across the glazed elevations.
Inside the centre, a two-storey climbing wall surrounded by a cafe and reception area sits in the crook of the L-shaped plan.
The climbing wall can be seen from almost every other part of the building, which includes bowling alleys, squash courts, a gym and a children’s play area.
Faceted staircases lead up to the rooftop tennis court, which Bajon says offers “picturesque views of the old town, park and lake”.
Other sports centres on Dezeen include a timber-clad football training centre and a sports hall with a rainbow-coloured facade.
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Photography is by Bartosz Makowski.
Here’s some text from the architects:
Fala Park
Fala Park is a sports and recreation centre situated in the small and picturesque town of Wolsztyn, Poland, famous as the location of a locomotive roundhouse.
The new centre has been built on a former brownfield site bordering a historic park and offering views to a nearby lake.
Our intention was to take full advantage of the sites location by creating visual connections from the building to its attractive surroundings with the main internal spaces requiring natural light having views towards the lake.
A rooftop tennis court – Poland’s first – offers users an exciting platform to admire the far-reaching panorama of the town’s historic church towers and dense rooftops.
The form and massing of the building is derived from the spatial requirements of the sporting functions within.
Although initially Fala Park was supposed to be enclosed, we persuaded the investors to keep it open and welcoming; creating a new, inviting and energetic public space that seeks to strengthen the connections between the town, the park and the lake.
Along with the rooftop tennis court, Fala Park accommodates: 4 bowling alleys, 2 squash courts, a full height climbing wall, a gym with spin and fitness studios, a children’s play area, a mini-golf course, a cafe, and bike and Segway hire.
The building has been wrapped with semi-translucent, vertical brise-soleil panels arranged to create an expressive modular façade whilst reducing solar gain. Inside, contemporary and vivid interiors have been used to enable easy orientation within the entwining yet distinctive buildings functions. Bright accent colours and clear graphics and signage were used throughout to appeal to users of all ages.
A striking, green climbing wall, which can be seen throughout the building dominates the main interior space and acts as a notional ‘core’ and way-finding device for users.
The climbing walls distinctive form is also playfully expressed in the treatment of the stairs, furniture and other elements of the building. Even though Fala Park was completed on a very tight budget (jointly founded by EU grants and private equity) we believe we have succeeded in delivering a contemporary, playful and contextual building.
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