These images from the 9th and 10th floors show us - 17,000 square feet (1,580 square metres), the private amenity space for residents, that was custom-designed by Herzog & de Meuron, across their recently completed skyscraper, of 60-storey, 56…
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Amenities on 9th and 10th floors. 56 Leonard tower by Herzog & de Meuron. Photograph by Alexander Severin
Located in Bussy Saint Georges, the sports complex is part of a constructive dynamics of this rapidly growing city. Martin Duplantier Architectes has designed a silent volumes resuming the…
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Sports Center by Martin Duplantier Architectes. Photograph © Yohan Zerdoun
The architects Fuensanta Nieto y Enrique Sobejano, in collaboration with a French studio Novae Architectes, have won the First Prize in a…
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Sports and Cultural Center by Nieto Sobejano. Image courtesy of Nieto Sobejano
The Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) of Berlin has awarded the architect Francisco Mangado with the 2017 Art Prize, in the Architecture category. This award is an acknowledgment of his career as an architect, with masterpieces such as the…
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Elite equestrian Center by Francisco Mangado. Photograph © Pedro Pegenaute
Cox Architecture, the studio behind the Jakarta International Velodrome, has been appointed to design a 25,000-capacity stadium for the North Queensland Cowboys rugby league team. , full_html
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Overview of North Queensland Stadium by COX and 9Point9 Architects
Inspired in the shapes and symbollogy behind the of Rock Crystall, the stadium for the 26th Summer Universiade by gmp…
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Night exterior of the New stadium of 26th Summer Universiade in Shenzhen by gmp International GmbH. Photography © christian gahl
After seven months of international competition, Forest Green Rovers FC has finally selected the winning design for its upcoming football stadium in Stroud, UK., full_html
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Rendering. Forest Green Rovers FC stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects
One of the most spectacular and special works of modern architecture turns 50; the Pools of Marés (1961-1966). 50 years demonstrating that a pool does not have to be a simple water containment, but it can cherish and respect their fluency, assuming…
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Pools of Marés by Álvaro Siza. 50th anniversary. Photograph by Fernando Guerra / FG+SG
Located in a natural environment, this running track allows to emphasize the existing landscape values and bring nature to athletics.., full_html
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Tussols-Basil Athletics Stadium by RCR Arquitectes. Photography © Simón García
Following with our pools series on this summer, we remember that since the ancient Rome days, the pools and thermal baths have been meeting places, a return to nature, to the basics of ourselves, our bodies.

The fact of recycling these…
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Badeschiff by Fernando Menis. The landscape of the pool. Photograph © Uwe Walter