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49th year ISSN (Print): 0036-102X ISSN (Internet): ISSN 2198-4271

International magazine for sports, leisure and recreational facilities

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IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015 IPC/IAKS DISTINCTION 2015 IOC/IPC/IAKS Architecture and Design Award for Students and Young Professionals 2015

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AMENITY AREAS. SPORTS FACILITIES. POOL FACILITIES.

COLOGNE, 27 – 30 OCT. 2015 INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR FOR AMENITY AREAS, SPORTS AND POOL FACILITIES New venue: Now located in the state-of-the-art Halls 6, 7, 9 and 10.2 with access via Entrance East and North SAVE TIME, SAVE MONEY! Register online now and buy tickets.

Around 650 exhibitors will present their new products, designs and trends for the recreation world of tomorrow

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Spectacular anniversary: 50 years of IAKS

While you’re there, also visit the aquanale. Information at: www.aquanale.com

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Attractive and varied: The supporting programme for all target groups – for communities, planners, operators of sports and leisure facilities, stadiums and arenas, landscape architects, clubs, investors, buyers, property developers

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World class equipment for 40 years

For 40 years SMG has been developing and producing machinery and devices that significantly facilitate and improve all steps in the field of track and turf surface installations. This equipment is being used worldwide. SMG also provides their customers with the highest level of service that covers all their needs and expectations.

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This year SMG is delighted to celebrate this special anniversary with all their valued customers looking forward to welcome you at our FSB booth with lots of surprises.

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The Glass Mill Leisure Centre in Lewisham meets many of modern city life’s leisure requirements. Built on the lowest levels of an apartment building with 788 homes in the heart of Lewisham, it is designed to be a strong social and community meeting point. Glass Mill’s unique design and impressive sustainability changed the view of leisure centres in and around Lewisham. The broad variety of sports and wellness possibilities on offer are setting a new standard in Europe.

As a stable family business, Pellikaan has designed and built over 1000 swimming pools, sports halls, schools, offices, hotels and leisure centres and are also successful operators of our own leisure centres in The Netherlands. Each project benefits from almost 70 years of experience working with the latest innovations in sustainability, environment and energy, also at the Glass Mill Leisure Centre where it resulted in winning the London Planning Awards 2014 in the category BEST BUILT PROJECT – COMMUNITY SCALE.

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IOC/IPC/IAKS architecture prizes 2015 24 IAKS Congress, 27-30 October

Dear IAKS Members, dear Readers, The long-awaited moment has arrived: this issue of our “sb“ is presenting all the winners of our three architecture competitions.

The IOC/IAKS Award is concerned with exemplary buildings, sustainability, marked functionality and extraordinary architecture; the IPC/IAKS Distinction with accessibility to sports and leisure facilities for all, be they athletes or spectators. In both competitions, it is a question not solely of design, but also of everyday serviceability.

129 projects from all continents and 30 countries sent in their entries to us in Cologne before the closing date at the end of April. It was in Cologne that a high-calibre jury deliberated for three days in July in order to filter out the best projects from the spectacular range of worldwide sports architecture. I should like to take this opportunity to warmly thank the members of the jury: Dr. ChingKuo Wu (Taiwan), Gilbert Felli (Switzerland) Mark A. Todd (United Kingdom), Dr. Pino Zoppini (Italy), Karin Schwarz-Viechtbauer (Austria), Conrad Boychuk (Canada), Christian Gut (Switzerland) and Klaus Meinel (Germany).

The jury conferred 3 IOC/IAKS Awards in Gold, 7 IOC/IAKS Awards in Silver and 14 IOC/IAKS Awards in Bronze. 4 projects received the IPC/IAKS Distinction for accessible sports facilities.

The IOC/IPC/IAKS Architecture and Design Award for Students and Young Professionals is devoted to the ideas and strategies that afford a glimpse of the world of sports and leisure facilities of tomorrow. Students and young professionals from 19 countries participated. From the 43 entries, the jury selected four winners and awarded 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronzes.

My cordial thanks are owed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) who have been staunchly supporting our staging of these three competitions for many years.

The prize-giving ceremony at a large gala on 27 October 2015 is one of the highlights of the 24th International IAKS Congress at FSB in Cologne.

Also awaiting you is an attractive programme of ten Congress sessions. This is where international experts from the sports facilities sector will be discussing trends and best practices in building and business management, with the spectrum covering everything from new avenues for traditional sports grounds, facilities for schools and universities, and stadiums and arenas for large-scale events to urban activity zones and open spaces.

At our stand at FSB, you can not only view all the projects that have won architecture prizes, but also join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the IAKS, among other things with the IAKS AllTime Award and the IAKS Hall of Fame. FSB, the world‘s leading fair for Amenity Areas, Sports and Pool Facilities, is bringing together a total of some 650 companies from over 45 countries who will be presenting their products and services on 80,000 square metres of total space.

Expect to be surprised. We look forward to your visit and to seeing you again in Cologne!

Dr. Stephan J. Holthoff-Pförtner IAKS President

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Novogreen has been Spain’s leading turf grass producer since 2005. Novogreen supplies major golf and football clubs and garden centres in southwestern Europe (Spain, south of France, Portugal and Morocco) and also exports to other countries. At its three farms (2,250,000 sqm) 17 varieties of natural grass are grown, including Bermuda Celebration, ryegrass and Agrostis as well as the new hybrid Mixto, an all-weather turf and the best solution for top league football pitches, e.g. Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu football stadium. Installing 1 million sqm of turf per year, Novogreen is proud of its highly skilled and staff and advanced equipment.

The Novoter team has over 30 years of experience of the planning, coordination, construction and maintenance of natural turf football pitches and ice sports facilities and of heating, refrigeration and control equipment. Experience that has spawned innovation at Novoter AG.

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With its newly developed pitch heating system, Novoter AG has revolutionised the 40-year-old technology of conventional pitch heating, cutting energy bills by up to 80 %. It has created unique pitch cooling that counteracts the summer depression in sports turf and facilitates optimum turf growth all year round. Novoter has also developed an efficient and, for the first time, continuous pneumatic loosening method for appropriate maintenance of the turf support layers of sports pitches and golf courses. www.novoter.com

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SPIeTh GYMNASTICS GMBh, eSSlINGeN (GeRMANY) SPIETH Gymnastics is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of gymnastics equipment and mats. In addition, SPIETH also produces a broad range of judo floors, basketball units, climbing walls and changing room equipment. The product and service portfolio is is rounded of with customised solutions for training centres and freestyle halls.

SPIETH has supplied equipment to 11 Olympic Games and 38 World Championships and will be Official Supplier to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Many training centre projects have been completed in the last few years, including the National Training Centre for Gymnastics in Kienbaum, Germany; the COB Gymnastics Training Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the Freestyle Halls in Laax, Switzerland and Stuttgart-Rutesheim, Germany.

SPIETH Gymnastics was founded in 1831 and is located in Altbach near Stuttgart.

DeSIGN STuDIO eCKeRT, NuReMBeRG (GeRMANY) After training as a bricklayer Rainer Eckert studied architecture at the Universities of Kaiserslautern and Genoa in the contrasting fields of interior architecture, urban architecture and shipbuilding. Now he is a graduate engineer architect.

For years, his office has specialised in consultancy services to and the planning of pool facilities and spas. www.eckert-architect.com

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FluIDRA S.A., POlINYÀ (SPAIN) FLUIDRA S.A. is a multinational group with headquarters in Barcelona, specialising in developing applications for the conservation, handling, treatment and enjoyment of water. Sales in 2014 were € 593.8 million with 3,600 employees. Flexible multi-technology plants in key countries. Multidisciplinary R&D&I centre that focuses on sustainable solutions. Direct presence in 44 countries through approximately 150 branches. Products distributed in more than 175 countries. European automated logistics operator on a 55.000 m² facility, plus many more in different countries. The main business units are Pool & Wellness, Water Treatment, Fluid Handling & Irrigation and Water Engineering.

MuNICIPAlITY OF eSTARRejA (PORTuGAl) Estarreja is a municipality located in central northern Portugal with 26,997 inhabitants and an extensive and high-quality network of facilities available for the sports practice of the entire population.

From swimming pools to multipurpose sport facilities, the range is large, extending from swimming pools to multipurpose sports facilities, and is devoted entirely to improving the quality of life of the citizens.

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CONTENT

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BRONZE

GOLD

Friends Arena C.F. Møller, Krook & Tjäder................................................ 42

Athletics Exploratorium KEINGART - space activators.............................................. 16 Ciutadella Park Sports Centre Batlle i Roig Arquitectes..................................................... 20 Riehen Natural Pool Herzog & de Meuron.......................................................... 24

Beira-Rio Stadium Hype Studio Arquitetura.................................................... 44 Stade Léo Lagrange archi5................................................................................... 46 Landhausplatz LAAC Architects & Stiefel Kramer Architecture................ 48 Luanda Multisports Pavilion Berger Architects................................................................ 50

SILVER

Bossard Arena Scheitlin Syfrig Architekten AG......................................... 52

Bolshoy Ice Dome Ruben Reddy Architects & SIC Mostovic........................... 28

TornhØjhallen KEINGART - space activators.............................................. 54

Arena Fonte Nova Schulitz Architekten, Tetra Arquitetura............................ 30

BG Zehnergasse GABU Heindl Architektur................................................... 56

Prince Arthur’s Landing Brook McIlroy Inc................................................................ 32

Centre sportif Jules Ladoumègue DFA Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes................................. 58

Sargans Sports Centre Blue Architects & Ruprecht Architekten ........................... 34

Regent Park Aquatic Centre MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects............................ 60

Palais Thermal Pool Kauffmann Theilig & Partner............................................. 36

London 2012 Shooting Venue magma architecture Ostermann & Kleinheinz.................. 62

Baths of Géronde NAU..................................................................................... 38

NCC Rideau Canal Skateway Facilities CSV Architects.................................................................... 64

London Aquatics Centre Zaha Hadid Architects ....................................................... 40

Archery Hall and Boxing Club FT ARCHITECTS................................................................... 66 Blocs & Walls Climbing Center Powerhouse Company....................................................... 68

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IOC/IAKS AWARD IPC/IAKS DISTINCTION IOC/IPC/IAKS Architecture and Design Award for Students and Young Professionals IPC/IAKS DISTINCTION

PROJECTS

UNAH University Sports Complex Victor Cuadra Burlero + UNAH Dpt. of Infrastructure...... 70

Olympic Stadium Amsterdam Optimal surface for European track and field athletes..... 84

Ray & Joan Kroc Community Center SCF Architects..................................................................... 72

The AC Landshut speedway stadium Television-compliant floodlight for the Landshut Devils. 86

Edmonds Community Centre CEI Architecture.................................................................. 74

Game, set and match Laying of sports flooring.................................................... 88 The joy of the game Hybrid turf is the new ideal sports surface....................... 90

IOC/IPC/IAKS Architecture and Design Award for Students and Young Professionals Sports4Peace Philippos Michael & Panayiotis Savva .............................. 76 Actus Vincent Morissette............................................................. 78 Daegu Sports Court Mauricio Vieto Perez, Natalie Kwee, Caio Caesar Barboza.80 Urban Park, Athens Taroudaki Kallirroi & Antonia Vavanou ............................ 82

PROfessionals & Profiles The new “Ready to Build” concept.................................... 91 EuroBasket 2015................................................................. 91 40th Anniversary of SMG................................................... 92 MGSU, Russia...................................................................... 92 Baku Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan................................. 93 Rigour and lightness........................................................... 93

Index.............................................................................. 94 from a to z............................................................. 96 Address and trade directory with experts, service providers and product suppliers for sports and leisure facilities

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Athletics Exploratorium Odense, Denmark

In Denmark track and field has been regarded the king of classic sports for decades. This has resulted in a lot of athletic facilities scattered around the country at public schools or at local sports centres. Many facilities are now run down and the question is whether they should be renovated, upgraded or demolished.

If renovating, could the facilities then be reconceptualised, so that they spontaneously appeal to broader user groups and could be utilised more intensively? The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities, the University of Southern Denmark (Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics) and the Municipality of Odense, asked KEINGART - space activators to design an innovative proposal for a future Athletics Exploratorium, based on an existing older facility at the university campus in Odense.

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AWARD 2015

The Athletics Exploratorium is meant to be attractive, inspiring and exciting. It should function as a training facility for serious athletes, a laboratory for physical rehabilitation and research, an everyday playground, a popular tourist attraction and a place of interest that you visit if you happen to be passing by. The ambition of the project has been to connect many types of activity, thus addressing many types of users and needs.

The traditional athletic activities have a “linear“ character where the essence is to run quickly from A to B or throw and jump furthest / highest from A to B. At the Athletics Exploratorium these linear activities were connected with more adventurous and challenge-based activities, in order to provide users with more opportunities to test themselves, and to put something at stake. Users are encouraged to experience their progress through “daring, trying and failing.”

Address Athletics Exploratorium Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M www.sdu.dk

Architects KEINGART - space activators Gothersgade 11 DK-1123 Copenhagen K www.koark.dk

Client/Operator University of Southern Denmark Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M www.sdu.dk

Commissioning 9/2013

Construction costs 1,600,000 €

Operating costs in 2014 40,000 €

Size of site 20,000 m² Number of athletes in 2014 15,000

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GOLD “Inspiring and exciting!

When the jury members examined this project, they were deeply impressed by the creativity and imagination the architects packed into this track-and-field training facility. The designers not only rehabilitated an old and worn-out training ground, but also redefined the basic movements of running, jumping and throwing and gave them many new variations in a very attractive and challenging environment that stimulates the user’s senses. This facility is a perfect example of how traditional sports can be given new inspiration and new content by combining stimulating design with modern technology and the culture of healthy urban living.�

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The Athletics Exploratorium contains not only the standard elements, such as the running track, the jumping pit, the throwing cage etc., but also a number of trails and tracks with different elements incorporated as “resistance” on the road.

The Athletics Stadium is surrounded by ramparts on three sides and is pierced by openings. On the fourth side a new building for the Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics has been erected. The main idea is, as you move away from the building, the obstacles increase in size and nature resumes its hold.

At the Exploratorium the classic distances are supplemented by new tracks, challenges and opportunities. Two paths cross the middle of the field. The Hilly Path runs diagonally across two hills and down into a valley where you can choose to pass through or by pass the central centrifugal pot. The Curvy Path winds its way around the hills and follows the curves without changing levels. The Off track route with two parallel tracks runs throughout the facility on varying surfaces, and passes ten different obstacles. The track and the obstacles vary from an “urban” character at

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the southern end to a more rural character prevalent at the north end. The obstacles can also be used as singular training stations.

The classic jumping disciplines may still take place, but new challenges have been added. Jumping out over the edge of a steep sandy slope and jumping from a 2 meter high vertical wall to land in a soft mattress present new challenges.

Shot put has been kept, while other classical disciplines had to be left out. Besides the traditional flat gravel area for shot put, the architects have added a hillside coated with rubber, where the shot put ball automatically rolls back to the feet of the thrower.

Artificial lighting has been integrated on three different levels. Level 1 is a basic system that lights up selected spots and ensures orientation. Level 2 contains the running light along the 400 meter track and level 3 is a powerful general stadium light that illuminates the whole facility. This light can be turned on manually by users and will then be lit for 45 minutes. The materials are chosen to reduce operating costs as effectively as possible.

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The development of The Athletic Exploratorium was accomplished directly with the client, operator and users, and their approval has been fundamental for the project.

The usability and functionality have been discussed throughout the developing period and adjustments have been made accordingly: the area is now used by all kinds of people and groups.

Athletic Exploratorium also includes lots of accessibility features: • The transport area and parking space is shared with the university.

• Users can circulate on all 20,000 m². The two outer lanes are constructed with a hard surface in order to allow i.e. wheelchair users to circulate more smoothly.

• There is a special ramp and track for wheelchair users where they can access a higher level and overlook the area.

• The design in itself works as signage. The red running tracks lead all the way to the parking lot and the pedestrian area and show the way. The surfaces have different tactility and the colourings have been implemented in order to allow contrasts to emerge.

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Ciutadella Park Sports Centre

AWARD 2015

Barcelona, Spain

The district of Ciutat Vella, one of the most densely populated in Barcelona with 111,290 inhabitants, is on the constant lookout for open spaces as sites for necessary amenities. Its built fabric is the third densest in the city, with 24,786 inhabitants/km², and this, along with the historical remains in its subsoil, means that finding suitable sites for facilities sometime calls for planning and engineering operations that would be unthinkable in other sectors of the city.

One of the amenities needed in the district was a sports centre of approximately 4,500 m², including an indoor basketball court of regulation size, a multipurpose outdoor court, an indoor and an open-air swimming pool, a gymnasium that can be divided into various spaces, and the corresponding changing rooms and bathrooms.

Address CEM Parc de la Ciutadella Passeig de Circumvallació 1 ES-08003 Barcelona www.cemciutadella.cat

Batlle i Roig Arquitectes C/Manuel Florentin Pérez, 15 08950 Espluges de Llobregat ES-Barcelona www.battleiroig.com

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The site chosen for the amenity continues the line of buildings that form the façade of the Parc de la Ciutadella on Passeig Picasso: the former restaurant of the 1888 International Exhibition, now the Museum of Zoology, designed

by Lluís Domènech i Montaner; the Glasshouse by Josep Amargós i Samaranch; the Museum of Geology and Natural Sciences by Antoni Rovira i Trias and, finally, the Shade house by Josep Fontseré i Mestres. The original project

Client/Operator Foment Ciutat Vella Carrer Pintor Fortuny 17-19 ES-Barcelona

Size of site 4,300 m² Indoor spectator facilities 625 Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 6,900/211,500

Architects Commissioning 1/2010

In the general framework of the revision of the Parc de la Ciutadella Master Plan, set within the district of Ciutat Vella, it was decided to set aside a considerable area for a sports amenity to replace and improve some outdoor courts that had been immensely popular with the local population, next to the gateway to the park at the end of Avinguda Marqués de l’Argentera.

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IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

GOLD “The massing of the Sports Centre is simple, effective and poetic. Foundations from the citadel are visible at this level and the design team cleverly incorporated them into the design of the aquatic centre component. The arrangement of different sports layers on top of each other results in a very effective use of the site. The Sports Centre has an extremely simple and elegant form – a combination of glass and solid elements veiled with a skin of space that harmonises with the surrounding historic neighbourhood, provides solar screening and creates a social and architectural icon for the community. For this stunning and elegant design the jury awards the Ciutadella Park Sports Centre a Gold medal.�

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for the Parc de la Ciutadella, drafted in 1873, also by Fontseré, envisaged the construction of another building beside the Marquès de l’Argentera gate to complete the string of buildings enclosing the park on the Ciutat Vella side. The proposal involves a floor plan of approximately 750 m². Its proximity to the aviary involved remodelling the cages and proposing a new layout.

The project sets out to harmonize the scale of the sports centre with that of the park’s other buildings, organizing the project to occupy a minimum spatial footprint without rising above the other buildings. To this end, the main facilities (sports court, swimming pool and changing rooms) are situated on a basement floor approximately 3.5m beneath the level of the park.

The ground floor, at street level, contains the general foyer and entrance control to limited-access floors. It also provides free access to the tiered seating of the sports court and a connection though the building from Passeig Picasso to the Parc de la Ciutadella, as in the case of the Glasshouse. The first floor accommodates

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the multipurpose gym and fitness spaces, and the second floor houses the rest of the facilities required by this type of amenity (medical centre, installations, etc.), as well as incorporating an open-air swimming pool with its associated services. This high-rise layout exploits the difference in headroom between the sports centre and the swimming pool to terrace the building and reduce the general height to 14m, considerably lower than the adjacent buildings and even lower than the surrounding trees.

The project is in the main centre of Barcelona, inside the Ciutadella Park, and the atmosphere is amazing for walking, running and practising sports. This project engages with social sustainability in terms of being a place where all the communities and neighbourhoods in the centre of the city can integrate.

During the preliminary stages of the project, remains of the walls of the former Citadel built in 1714 by King Felipe V were found on the site, five metres below the level of the park. The architectural quality and archaeolog-

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ical value of the remains prompted us to adapt the project to the layout of the walls and leave them on view to visitors, at least around the swimming pool. Their layout delimits and separates the leisure area from the swimming pool, with a shallow trench to protect the ruins.

The building’s exterior, like the other constructions in Passeig Picasso, serves to enclose the park. The ground floor has been provided with a glass facing that seeks maximum transparency between the street and the park.

Finally, the building is clad with wooden slating to provide solar protection, blend in with the trees and establish a relationship with the Shade house.

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Naturbad Riehen

AWARD 2015

Riehen, Switzerland

The old public swimming pool in Riehen had to be closed and torn down in 2007 due to a new road tunnel that was to be built underneath the premises. In view of the ideal conditions the area has to offer – long hours of sunshine and an idyllic setting on the periphery of a binational and well-developed nature and recreation area – the citizens of Riehen decided in a municipal vote to establish a new swimming pool on the same site. More specifically, it was decided to build a natural swimming pool using biological water treatment to set it apart from the conventional swimming pools in the area. Riehen’s new natural swimming pool, part of which is located above the new road tunnel, is divided into two sections, one incorporating the actual pool, the other a functional area serving ancillary uses and accommodating the water treatment plant.

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The initiators were lucky to find an architect who was capable of faithfully realising the idea of a natural swimming pool and, at the same time, providing advanced infrastructural facilities that do justice to people’s diversified needs and interests. The conventional, squareshaped swimming pool was transformed into a bathing pond surrounded by aquatic plants: It is subdivided into a 25-metre swimming pool with four lanes, a non-swimmer’s area with a beach section and a water slide, and a diving pool with a 1-metre board and a 3-metre platform. The various pool areas are linked together by a system of footbridges, ladders and stairs; a disabled lift is included. There is also a children’s pool furnished with a number of play features. Towards the road and a neighbouring property to the west, the pool is screened off by a wooden perimeter wall. Towards the south, the area is

Address Naturbad Riehen Weilstrasse 69 CH-4125 Riehen www.naturbadriehen.ch

Architects Herzog & de Meuron Rheinschanze 6 CH-4056 Basel www.herzogdemeuron.com

Client/Operator Gemeinde Riehen Abteilung Kultur, Freizeit und Sport Wettsteinstrasse 1 CH-4125 Riehen www.riehen.ch

Commissioning 3/2014

Construction costs 8,000,000 €

Operating costs in 2014 250,000 €

Size of site 7,765 m² Number of athletes 42,622

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GOLD “Local citizens decided to build a new swimming pool on the original site. The water of this swimming pool undergoes absolutely natural biological treatment. The natural surroundings are dominated by aquatic plants. The pool is surrounded by a timber wall. The state-of-the-art technology and a special water treatment system are of superlative quality and provide clean water. The heat recovery system meets part of the pool’s needs. The jury awarded a Gold medal to this pool not only because of its design but also because of its strong commitment to nature and the environment.

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open, skirted merely by a green hedge. On the eastern side, the perimeter wall is adjoined by the main building containing the entrance and various facilities such as changing rooms and a cafÊ with indoor and outdoor seating. The wall along the northern and western boundaries is furnished with a 200-metre long wooden sun deck incorporating changing cubicles. From all parts of the premises, including the main building’s terrace, attention is focused on the bathing pond at the centre of the site encompassed by the wooden sun deck and the lawn. The biological water treatment basins are embedded cascade-like in the green sloping landscape on the opposite side of the road. This area also offers various, all-season recreational and sports facilities as well as parking facilities for bicycles and cars.

the assimilative capacity of natural waters, i.e. ecological processes. However, a natural swimming pool is not fully comparable with a natural body of water such as a river or a lake. The new Riehen pool relies on state-of-the-art technology and a special water treatment system that provides top-quality and clear water that emanates a distinctive scent but contains no irritants. In line with this ecological approach, the designers also paid particular attention to the question of sustainability and local habitat as far as the wood used for construction and the surrounding vegetation are concerned. In addition, the heat recovery system covers part of the required energy. The planted shallow waters surrounding the main pool and the external filter basins help to speed up the water heating process.

Unlike normal outdoor pools that depend on chemical additives, natural swimming pools rely on biological-mechanical water treatment processes exploiting

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old facility. The charm and the amenities the new pool has to offer attract families, teenagers as well as men and women from far beyond Riehen. Visitors include swimmers and non-swimmers, school classes, people seeking peace and quiet, as well as strollers passing by. The cafĂŠ is open for celebrations and events of all kinds all year round. It appears that after only a year in business, Riehen Natural Swimming Pool is quickly becoming a popular recreational and sports facility.

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Bolshoy Ice Dome

DISTINCTION 2015

Sochi, Russia

The exterior structure of the Ice Dome was designed to resemble a “frozen ice droplet“, although the formal concept and structure was based on the Coronation Fabergé egg of 1897. The Ice Dome is illuminated by light-emitting diodes (LEDs), resembling the “jewel-encrusted surface” of the famous Russian art piece. The roof of the dome is mostly silver in colour and is covered with aluminium panels, which are decorated with 38,000 LED lights that illuminate the outside of the arena at night. The roof also doubles as a scoreboard that displays the live score of the game being played inside as well as an animation of a hockey puck whenever a goal is scored.

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abled and wheelchair access in all quadrants of the ground floor accessible by ascending the 20 elevators to each level, 4 of which are specifically designed to be adjacent to each of the four ramps on the podium level.

The arena was designed from a concept with universal accessibility in mind. Initially, due to the raised podium level, an access ramp ‘zig-zagging’ up the staircase was envisioned. This however was replaced by the sculptural elevator on the eastern podium whereby wheelchair users can access the podium level of the arena from the Olympic Park. All entrance facilities are universally accessible, the entrances are also coded and all signage includes directions in braille. Wheelchair seating is not segregated from general seating and 32 wheelchair seats are located

Address Bolshaya Ledovaya Arena Sochi Coastal Cluster Adlersky district Imeretinskaya lowland Olympic Avenue RU-Sochi

Architects Ruben Reddy Architects 59 Musgrave Road ZA-Durban, 4062 www.rubenreddyarchitects.co.za SIC Mostovic RU-Sochi

Client/Operator GAZPROM, HC Sochi Continental Hockey League Olympic Park, Adler District RU-Sochi Krasnodarsky Krai, 354349 www.hcsochi.ru/arena

Commissioning 5/2012

Construction costs 277,919,385 €

Operating costs in 2012 735,400 €

Size of site 52,511 m² Indoor spectator facilities 13,454 Number of spectators in 2014 365,582

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SILVER DISTINCTION IPC/IAKS DISTINCTION 2015 “The jury was very impressed by the solution for this very important and iconic facility. The idea that the exterior structure of this Ice Dome was designed to resemble a frozen water droplet is more than just a formal concept.

The solutions realised for the space around the building are also highly impressive.

This venue provides a range of options for disabled spectators visiting the venue. The ramps in particular are useful during egress or when there is an emergency evacuation.

This venue sets new standards of accessibility in Russia, providing plentiful accessible toilets and wide easy-tomanoeuvre circulation spaces.�

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in each quadrant. Disabled restrooms are located in each quadrant of the arena at podium level and suite level. Signage is available in braille on each level and all emergency signage is illuminated for ease of reading. Elevators use voice-over for the visually impaired and all levels are equipped with a place of refuge in case of an emergency.

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Arena Fonte Nova

AWARD 2015

Salvador, Brazil

Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova is a great example for multifunctional use of a stadium. The stadium is not only an exceptional venue for football matches and the World Cup 2014, but also offers an amazing space in the southern opening for various events, such as concerts and parties.

In keeping with the tradition of Brazilian stadiums, the footprint of the stadium has the shape of a horseshoe with a large opening in the southern part of the stands. The traditional form in combination with modern stadium design aspects results in a sustainable building: The opening not only provides optimal air flow into the stadium bowl and simultaneously establishes a direct relation to the adjacent inner city lake, but also permits the use of the stadium for multifunctional activities. Concerts, theatre presentations and various other events can take place in the covered space within the opening without conflicting with the pitch during the football season. A bridge-like restaurant floats above the opening giving visitors a unique experience with views over the pitch and the lake.

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Architects Schulitz Architekten GmbH Viewegstraße 26 D-38102 Braunschweig www.schulitz.de Tetra Arquitetura Rua General Jardim 770-3“andar BR-Sao Paulo, SP CEP 01223-010 www.tetraarq.com.br

The architects SCHULITZ Architekten in collaboration with TETRA Arquitetura from São Paulo/Brazil designed the stadium´s roof structure in collaboration with RFR, Stuttgart.

An innovative design of a spoked wheel system with a membrane that is pierced by the connecting vertical struts and is located between the upper and lower tension rings minimizes the use of material in an unseen manner: the weight of the roof structure is only 45 kg/m², making it one of the world’s lightest stadium roofs ever. The roof structure’s optimised geometry is the key to fulfil the roof’s multiple functional requirements (sight lines, solar protection, drainage and wind loads).

The façade was designed using horizontal shading elements with varying inclinations depending on the façade’s orientation to provide sun protection whilst maximizing daylight use. Furthermore, the use of rainwater reduces water consumption, the former stadium’s concrete was recycled and used as building material, the stadium’s energy consumption

Client/Operator Fonte Nova Negócios e Participacoes S/A-FNP Ladeira da Fonte das Pedras s/n lNazaré BR-40050-565 Salvador www.itaipavaarena fontenova.com.br

Size of site 121,189 m² Outdoor spectator facilities 53,376 Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 1,665/878,931

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SILVER “This football stadium shows that intelligent design can always come up with new solutions enabling the operator to create additional events and sources of income. There are three main advantages to leaving the southern stand open to the lakeside. It invites stadium visitors to enjoy not only football matches but also the beautiful surroundings with the lake.

It also makes the natural ventilation of the stadium interior highly efficient, and finally the plaza space offers flexibility for many different events of different sizes. In the jury’s opinion, this stadium shows a perfect compromise between expectations of football fans and the operators’ interest in maximising multifunctional use.”

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was minimized, the construction process was organized in a sustainable manner and the material’s primary energy consumption was considered in the design process.

The architect’s sustainable design for the new stadium in Salvador da Bahia received the LEED Certification in Silver in February 2014. After 4 years of planning and construction the new arena was officially opened on 7 April 2013 staging the football match between local rivals Bahia and Vitoria.

The new football stadium has a capacity of more than 50,000 seats. The arena staged six FIFA World Cup matches in 2014. Also, the International Olympic Committee selected Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova as the venue for the Olympic Football tournament in 2016.

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Prince Arthur’s Landing Thunder Bay, Canada

Prince Arthur’s Landing transforms the City of Thunder Bay’s waterfront into a mixed-use village and animated park, reconnecting the downtown to the shores of Lake Superior. The waterfront features distinct environments, ecological systems and sustainable technologies that support active and passive uses in a culturally diverse setting. Design elements were inspired by the ecology of the northern Lake Superior shoreline and celebrate the historical and contemporary artistic and cultural contributions of local Aboriginal communities.

Prince Arthur’s Landing is based on a philosophy of sustainable revitalization which embodies the spirit, materiality and culture of Canada’s North. The waterfront’s network of natural and built environments are instilled with a design sensitivity that balances environmental, social and economic prosperity while acknowledging the nine thousand year history of the site. The natural environment incorporates sus-

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tainable landscape design techniques by utilizing non-invasive, drought tolerant planting and passive storm water filtration across the site. The architecture has been designed in a complementary fashion using sustainable technology.

The park brings together a diversity of public and private uses that celebrate all-season activity through a range of landscapes, dedicated trails, activities, park elements and public art installations: • The Spirit Garden is a unique landscape feature which gives expression to its deep cultural and historic roots. The program includes: formal and informal gathering space, ceremony space and natural gardens.

• The Water Garden Pavilion is a central building within the activity areas. The Pavilion provides washrooms, changing facilities, a restaurant, a community room and a warm-up room for adjacent recreational uses such as the splash pad / skating rink, boat pond and skateboard park.

Address Prince Arthur’s Landing 2201 Sleeping Giant Parkway Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada www.thunderbay.ca

Architects Brook McIlroy Inc. 161 Spadina Avenue, Suite 200 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5V 2L6 www.brookmcilroy.com

Client/Operator City of Thunder Bay 500 Donald Street E P.O. Box 800 Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 5K4 Canada www.thunderbay.ca

Commissioning 12/2011

Construction costs 41,917,800 €

Operating costs in 2014 735,400 €

Size of site 145,000 m² Number of athletes in 2014 100,000

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SILVER “Prince Arthur’s Landing is a major development project designed to help revitalise the city’s downtown business district and creates a waterfront park that reconnects the city with Lake Superior.

Prince Arthur’s Landing is both a casual and festival gathering place for the community and links, by way of the Celebration Circle, the Aboriginal community.

This structure, developed through collaboration of the architectural team and an Aboriginal artist, is reflective of an exceptionally high level of design found throughout the park. The beauty of the various buildings, structures, public art and landscape development is recognised by the jury that awards this exceptional public space a Silver medal.”

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• The Ice/Splash Pad provides 1.000 sqm of skating and water recreation. Located at the centre is an island feature that acts as a rest area with seating and a gas fireplace. In the summer the island is transformed into a water feature.

• The Baggage Building Art Centre was originally constructed in the early 1900s and has been renovated, and expanded with a two-storey addition.

The project has been an opportunity for economic renewal in Thunder Bay through tourism, resident retention and investment.

It has provided additional jobs through expanded programming and has spilled over into the adjacent urban realm with new business start ups. Access for all sectors of the population was another careful consideration in the design for Thunder Bay’s elderly and mobility challenged. Prior to the redevelopment the park averaged 20,000 visitors a year. Since renewal the park has been averaging 100,000 visitors.

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Sargans Sports Centre Sargans, Switzerland

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product state. A cubic metre of wood costs CHF 90 to be processed through a sawmill. A finished sheet of three-ply laminate costs CHF 900 per cubic metre, and a laminated wood beam CHF 1,400. This increase in value from a log to a finished product means significant local value creation.

In Sargans, a Swiss town located near the border with Liechtenstein, a new sports centre replaces a triple gymnasium that was no longer to state-of-the-art standards.

Due to the fact that the marshy site cannot bear large loads and the existing pile foundations were to be reused, a lightweight wood structure was the ideal response to the design problem. The centrepiece of the structure is the quadruple gymnasium, an impressive space whose long sides are flanked by rooms with lower ceiling heights; while the equipment rooms are situated on the northeast side, a two-storey zone on the southwest holds the fitness room and the gymnastics spaces, as well as the foyer and the changing rooms.

In the sports centre, one can see ash that is laced into a spruce glue-laminated beam. That is how the slender beam width was facilitated even in the structurally heavily loaded areas. That is an innovative process and requires fundamental know-how and high standards of technology in the lamination process, but it also needs proven knowledge about wood and its capacities.

1,250 cubic meters of wood were used in construction, from which 63% was Swiss in origin and the other 37% came from nearby areas in Austria and Germany. 94% of the wood was processed in Switzerland to its finished

Timber is a locally grown building material, which means that the architects worked closely with local wood specialists and their craft-based know-how. In the process, they noticed that a local and personal relationship automati-

Address Sport Center Sargans Pizolstrasse 15 CH-7320 Sargans

Architects Blue Architects & Ruprecht Architekten Wasserwerkstrasse 129 CH-8037 Zurich www.bluearchitects.com

Client/Operator Canton of St. Gallen Building Department Laemlinsbrunnenstrasse 54 CH-9000 St. Gallen www.hochbau.sg.ch

Size of site 36,504 m² Indoor spectator facilities 850 Outdoor spectator facilities 3.000

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Construction costs 15,450,000 €

Operating costs in 2014 191,667 €

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SILVER “The jury awarded the Sargans Sports Hall a Silver medal for its high standard of ecological and economic quality while creating a design of outstanding aesthetic quality. The project emphasises the importance of top-flight craftsmanship in combination with modern technologies. While the programme of a triple sports hall is familiar and long-established, the architects put a lot of effort and commitment into the issues of material (wood), its quantity, origin, cost and regrowth as well as into the development of an innovative beam structure with ash insertions. The jury also endorsed the claim of social acceptance of a building strongly rooted in the region by resorting to local materials and local craftsmen. �

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cally creates an emotional attachment and sense of responsibility towards the sport centre. An example is that of the electrician who wanted to carry out his work especially well because he wanted to use the building in his free time for sports. Or a young timber construction foreman who is a climber and enjoys looking down at the building he himself helped to build.

However it has not only been the craftsmen and craftswomen who have shown their respect towards the building, but also the daily users who prove their attentiveness towards it. A great social acceptance can be achieved when the building is strongly rooted and has its very own relationship to the location and its inhabitants.

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Palais Thermal Pool

AWARD 2015

Bad Wildbad, Germany

The Palais Thermal with its thermal spring facilities is an important and well-known feature of Bad Wildbad, the popular tourist, health and recreation resort in the northern Black Forest. The historic bath − built in 1847 directly over a thermal spring and rebuilt and restructured several times through to the present day − is a magnet for spa lovers from the whole area between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe.

Though the Palais Thermal is a thermal bath, the spa tended to attract the most visitors and capacity was too low, especially at the weekends. To increase the attractiveness of the Palais Thermal, large outdoor spaces on the 3rd and the 4th floors of the adjacent inoperative sanatorium were used to create new outdoor facilities of the Palais Thermal. The new spa areas complement the offer and make the thermal bath more attractive especially during the summer period.

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A homogeneous atmospheric wooden landscape was installed that flows over the existing structures, providing a surface pleasant to the touch for users. The complex folding of the homogeneous wooden landscape was simulated in the planning phase. The surfaces are made of thermally pretreated wood intended for outdoor use. Special lighting and green areas contribute to the atmosphere. In the courtyard of the historic building, integrated staircases and the enlarged lift give visitors barrier-free access to the top level with an exceptional panoramic view of the valley.

To screen off the neighbouring hotel, a translucent white membrane spans the whole of the north side. It also frames the view to the south and east and is a weather shield for most parts of the terraces. Together with the wooden landscape, it is a new iconic feature that can be seen from a distance as a modern element contrasting with the historical building.

Address Palais Thermal Bad Wildbad Kurplatz 9 D-75323 Bad Wildbad www.palais-thermal.de

Architects Kauffmann Theilig & Partner Freie Architekten BDA Zeppelinstrasse 10 D-73760 Ostfildern www.ktp-architekten.de

Client/Operator Staatsbad Wildbad Bäder- und Kurbetriebsgesellschaft mbH Kernerstrasse 5 D-75323 Bad Wildbad www.palais-thermal.de

Commissioning 12/2011

Construction costs 2,700,000 €

Operating costs in 2014 80,000 €

Size of site 145,000 m² Number of athletes in 2014 93,045

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SILVER “The jury awarded the Palais Thermal in Bad Wildbad a Silver medal for its achievement in upgrading a historic and touristically important thermal facility into a magnet for spa lovers and at the same time into an atmospheric wooden landscape of significance for urban development. The project shows skilled handling of the topographic situation and high quality of craftsmanship. The combination of materials – the homogeneous wooden structure and the translucent membrane of the sheltering roof – gives this project an iconic appearance.

Access to the facility is provided by a wooden staircase which is an integrative feature of the design, leading barrier-free through to an enlarged elevator. The project succeeds by making optimal use of the existing landscape and offering users an exceptional panoramic view.”

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The main material used is wood home-grown in the Black Forest.

The decking is heat-treated ash wood whose cell structure has been modified by thermal treatment to prevent the wood from absorbing water, thus making it durable and robust. This is a non-chemical process that imparts longevity naturally. In the load-bearing areas, the entire substructure consists essentially of classical carpentry. At the end of its useful life, the membrane structure will be taken back by the exporting company and recycled for reuse in other areas.

The new outdoor area is highly popular with spa visitors. In only the first year of operation, the Palais Thermal has recorded 18% higher attendance and 26% higher sales. Beside the new offers, visitors appreciate the special atmosphere of the extraordinary architecture and the excellent view from the terraces and the outside pool.

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Baths of Géronde

AWARD 2015

Sierre, Switzerland

The project began as a design competition organised by the municipality of Sierre for the redevelopment of the existing Géronde swimming pool and beach area. The municipality purchased the facility from a private group that had closed the pool to the public. At the time of this purchase, the condition of the existing facility was very poor, with leaks and structural issues as well as inadequate hygiene in the pool. Several crude outbuildings had been added to the original Hans Bieri-designed semi-circular structure, which has since been declared a historic monument of cantonal importance. Thus, it became important to the municipality to update and extend this facility and to return it to public use.

The renovation and extension of “Bains de Géronde” had to interact with the historical structure from 1932. The development of the new pool landscape follows the sinuous local topography, with its boulders, trees and lush

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Address Baths of Géronde Chemin du Grand Lac CH-3960 Sierre

Architects NAU Riedtlistrasse 27 CH-8006 Zürich www.nau.coop

Commissioning 3/2014

Construction costs 11,150,000 €

slopes. The new stainless-steel pools are conceived of as two water surfaces hovering slightly above the lake of Géronde, providing sublime views of the surrounding scenery. The zones around the pools also lead to boardwalks and floating docks, providing swimmers direct access to reeds, rushes and other indigenous vegetation. The central goal of the project was to restore the shoreline to its original natural state and establish a sensitive connection to the lake. The new natural landscaping frames the swimming area, creating an idyllic setting for the bathing experience.

The original semi-circular changing-room building by Hans Bieri, a historical building embedded in the landscape, serves as a second source of inspiration. Two new arms extend from Bieri’s original horseshoe geometry, enclosing the entrance, service areas and locker-room facilities.

The resulting ramping structure permits both the harmonious integration of the new programme as well as the cre-

Client/Operator Ville de Sierre Hôtel de Ville CH-3960 Sierre www.sierre.ch

Size of site 4,700 m²

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SILVER “The jury awarded the Baths of Géronde in the Swiss Alps a Silver medal for its delicate insertion into the landscape as a continuation of the historic structures dating back to the 1930s. The development of the new pool landscape follows the existing topography and vegetation. The project succeeds in extending the original structure and using this modernist architecture as an inspiration for a contemporary upgrading. The additional ramping structure creates a rooftop promenade to enhance the landscape experience. The jury was highly impressed by this fine piece of landscape architecture, emphasising the ecological restoration of the shore lines and the harmonious combination of artificial pools and the natural lake on different levels.”

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ation of a rooftop promenade for strolls around the lake in the off-season, when the baths are closed. The careful restoration of this modernist facility and the addition of new structures and technical installations to bring the complex up to date create a coherent and playful ensemble in the spirit of the original building. The range of materials, limited to concrete, aluminium and wood, serves as a contemporary counterpart to the historical features. The pioneering spirit of modernist sports architecture informs this sustainable extension and brings the picturesque location of Géronde into the foreground.

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London Aquatics Centre London, United Kingdom

The architectural concept of the London Aquatics Centre is inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment in sympathy with the river landscape of the Olympic Park. An undulating roof sweeps up from the ground as a wave enclosing the pools of the Centre with its unifying gesture of fluidity, whilst also describing the volume of the swimming and diving pools.

The London Aquatics Centre was designed to have the flexibility to accommodate the size and capacity of the London 2012 Olympic Games whilst also providing the optimum size and capacity for use in legacy mode after the 2012 Games.

The London Aquatics Centre is located at the southeast edge of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on the new Stratford City Bridge giving pedestrian access to the park from the new Stratford City development and public transport. The Aquatics Centre is planned on an orthogonal axis perpendicular to the Stratford City Bridge. Along this axis are laid out the three pools. The training pool is located under the bridge

Address London Aquatics Centre Olympic Park London E20 2ZQ United Kingdom

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Architects Zaha Hadid Architects London EC1 0BQ United Kingdom www.zaha-hadid.com

Construction costs 36,300,000 â‚Ź

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whilst the competition and diving pools are within a large-volume pool hall. The overall strategy is to frame the base of the pool hall as a podium by surrounding it and connecting it into the bridge. This podium element allows for the containment of a variety of differentiated and cellular programmatic elements into a single architectural volume which is seen to be completely assimilated with the bridge and the landscape. The podium emerges from the bridge to cascade around the pool hall to the lower level of the canal. The pool hall is expressed above the podium level by a large roof which arches along the same axis as the pools. The roof undulates to differentiate the volumes of the competition and diving pools, and extends beyond the pool hall envelope to cover the external areas of the podium and entrance on the bridge.

The roof structure is grounded at three points of the centre (two points at the northwest end on the bridge; and one single point to the southeast end). This structural arrangement ensured 7,500 temporary spectator seats could be installed

Client/Operator London Legacy Development Corporation 1 Stratford Place Montfichet Road London E20 1EJ United Kingdom www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk

Size of site 36,875 m² Indoor spectator facilities 2,500 Number of athletes in 2014 750,000

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SILVER “The jury is of the opinion that the London Aquatics Centre will without doubt be viewed as an iconic venue of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The jury was impressed by the quality of the architectural design and believes that legacy operation needs could have been of the same standard.�

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along either side of the pools in Olympic mode (total 15,000 temporary seats) with no structural obstructions. After the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, this temporary seating has been removed and replaced with glazing panels, leaving a capacity of 2,500 seats for community use and future national/international events, with a significantly reduced pool hall volume.

The London Aquatics Centre was designed with long-term community use in mind and, thus, both sustainability and cost-effective operation were design priorities. Crucially, the design team focused on designing sustainability into the building rather than bolting it on at the end. Zaha Hadid Architects made extensive use of measures to maximise energy efficiency, including high levels of insulation and envelope air tightness, low-velocity ventilation systems with high efficiency heat recovery, and waterbased heating systems with variable speed pumps. An ammonia chiller plant provides space cooling and uses rejected heat for pool water heating.

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Friends Arena

AWARD 2015

Stockholm, Sweden

Friends Arena, located in the North of Stockholm, is Sweden’s national stadium and one of the world’s most modern arenas. It has a spectator capacity of 75,000 for concerts and 50,000 for sporting events and boasts clear views from all seats as well as the latest communication technology, a retractable roof and excellent support services.

The history of Friends Arena started at the beginning of the new millennium, when a public discussion gathered momentum on the issue of Råsunda, Sweden’s then national arena. The initial plan was to refurbish and extend the old stadium but this soon proved to be too expensive. It was concluded that the project should expand to include an entirely new city district around an arena.

The arena is a so called “fifth generation arena”, which means that the project includes larger investment and change of the surrounding areas and its infrastructure, social and economic life. The arena is designed as a three-tier solu-

Address Friends Arena Råsta Strandväg 1 169 79 Solna SE-Stockholm www.friendsarena.se

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Architects C.F. Møller Krukmakargatan 21 SE-118 51 Stockholm www.cfmoller.se Krook & Tjäder Hudiksvallsgatan 6 SWE-113 30 Stockholm www.krook.tjader.se

tion with enclosed corners. In order to optimize the sightlines and to enhance the experience in the very tight bowl, a lot of effort was put into 3D studies and geometrical calculations.

The retractable roof was designed and constructed in a very close collaboration between the architects and the e­ ngineers.

The two movable roof sections of 3,750 sqm are 91 cm thick and can be opened in less than 20 minutes. The exterior façade is composed of perforated, embossed aluminium sheets, assembled in a triangular pattern which makes the appearance of the façade change with the weather, time of day and year. At night the inner facade lights up in a multitude of colours by LCD lighting, controlled by a computer system. This means that the appearance of the arena can be easily changed and adapted according to a specific event.

Friends Arena is designed for events of all sizes. For concerts, the size of the audience is up to the artist, the usual format being 12,000, 30,000, 50,000 or 75,000 fans.

Client/Operator Friends Arena 169 79 Solna SWE-Stockholm www.friendsarena.se

Size of site 110,000 m² Indoor spectator facilities 49,100 Number of spectators in 2014 845,000

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BRONZE “The Friends Arena in Stockholm is impressive as a modern stadium whose multifunctionality ensures intensive use. Besides serving as a stadium for national events, it can host concerts and the like – all-year round, thanks to the retractable roof. The steeply sloping, compact grandstands and the intelligent overall design of the arena combine to create the ideal scenario for great events.�

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Friends Arena can handle events on a range of different surfaces such as natural grass, gravel, ice, wood chips, and parquet, all of which can be quickly and easily installed. While planning the arena, extensive effort went into developing effective, flexible solutions for logistics, rigging, and stage positions. This allowed for increased capacity utilization. A two-lane service road under the terraces enables organizers to easily and conveniently drive directly onto the arena floor with equipment for projects such as constructing stages, laying grass, and making ice.

The backstage area, dressing rooms and service functions are all on the same level as the arena floor and provide performers and athletes with easy access inside the arena.

Friends Arena is named after the anti-bullying organization Friends, which provides training and support for staff at schools, pre-schools and sports associations around Sweden to stop bullying. Friends Arena is committed to spread the vision to create a socially sustainable society.

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Beira-Rio Stadium

AWARD 2015

Porto Alegre, Brazil

In November 2006 Hype Studio was commissioned to design a roof for Beira-Rio Stadium – originally built between 1965 and 1969. The stadium opened in April 1969 and had become one the most important stadiums in South America – home of Sport Club Internacional, one of Brazil’s most successful football teams.

The client’s objective was to have all spectator stands covered. Beira-Rio is located in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, one of the coldest cities in the country, and during winter time the matches’ attendance would eventually drop considerably with rainfall. Beira-Rio was a typical 1960s Brazilian ground – built to have a lot of people inside, but lacking in infrastructure. Hype Studio developed a renovation project for the entire stadium, with a new roof, new lower tier, new VIP suites, restaurant, stores, etc. Construction began in 2010 and finished in December 2013.

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Address Beira-Rio Stadium Avenida Padre Cacique 891 BR-Porto Alegre/RS 90810-240 www.internacional.com.br/ onteudo?modulo=16&setor=195

Architects Hype Studio Arquitetura Rua Sofia Veloso 171 BR-Porto Alegre/RS 90050-140 www.hypestudio.com.br

Commissioning 2/2014

Construction costs 110,000,000 €

The main influence was the idea of using the new roof to create a new look to the stadium. The old façade seemed chaotic and not representative of the club’s success. The new roof was created as a state-of-the-art structure with a rather complex geometry, but very smart in design: All 65 modules are exactly the same. The modules start 8.5 meters away from the façade and cantilever 44 meters into the stadium, covering the stands. The roof’s membrane was designed to change colours due to LED lights installed in the structure.

The stadium has become a new landmark in the city, day and night. The stadium’s internal areas renovation was guided by FIFA requirements. The roof is a steel structure covered with a PTFE membrane. PTFE, besides being a self-cleaning material (dirt is washed away by the rain), is very lightweight. The openings between the roof’s trusses

Client/Operator Sport Club Internacional Avenida Padre Cacique 891 BR-Porto Alegre/RS 90810-240 www.internacional.com.br

Size of site 200,000 m² Outdoor spectator facilities 57,080 Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 1,440/750,000

Operating costs in 2014 3,600,000 € sb 5/2015

IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “The jury appreciates the idea of giving a new look to the old stadium and, at the same time, of protecting spectators from sun and rain with a new roof. This special structure is a very interesting solution that uses membranes. The stadium is also integrated into a very beautiful area near the sea. For these reasons the jury decided to award this facility a Bronze medal.�

The Jury

allow for natural ventilation of all internal areas. Rainwater is collected to be used in toilets and pitch irrigation.

Half of the original structure (the upper stand) was retained. The old lower tier was torn down and its concrete was grinded and re-used. Beira-Rio remains one of the most successful stadiums in Brazil. The fans fell in love with their new home. Attendance increased, vandalism came to a minimum and Beira-Rio has become one of the few sports arenas in South America with nothing separating the spectators from the pitch.

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Stade Léo Lagrange

AWARD 2015

Toulon, France

Situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the mountain overlooking the City of Toulon, the Léo Lagrange stadium stands on an 8 ha site. The space needed to cover all the new required functions and to enclose all the playing fields is limited at this location, but it has panoramic views over the beautiful natural landscape of the French Riviera. In order to enhance the remarkable view offered to visitors as they enter the city and to create an urban landmark, the stands have been constructed perpendicularly to the highway. The taught curves of the stadium roof mirror the shapes of the surrounding mountains.

This urban, architectural design is characterised by its accessibility and the way that it harmonises with the surrounding district.

The sports complex is considered to be an urban park. From the inside, the large green surfaces of the playing fields, combined with a set of vertical green screens, create the image of a park and effectively frame the main views over the landscape.

Address Léo Lagrange Stadium Avenue René Cassin F-83100 Toulon

Architects archi5 48-50 rue Voltaire F-93100 Montreuil www.archi5.com

The whole site is an “open promenade” for the neighbourhood and is dedicated to the following sports activities: 3 football/ rugby pitches to national standards, all the multidisciplinary athletics facilities and 6 school playing fields are available to athletes and sportspeople. The 24 changing rooms for players are hidden under a football pitch in order to keep a clear view of the landscape. All visible constructed spaces in which competitor, public and VIP reception areas are contained are concentrated within the covered public footbridge.

The stands are designed like a jetty, and recall Toulon’s historic ties with the sea. The two stands for almost 3,500 viewers have a unique design: they are situated along a single line, overlooking two pitches on either side, like a “conversation seat”.

You can simultaneously watch sports activities on two opposite pitches from this jetty. It’s very convenient for regional competitions as it allows more than 10 matches to be played and watched during the same day.

Client/Operator Communauté d’Agglomération de Toulon Provence Méditerranée 107 Boulevard Henri Fabre F-83041 Toulon Cedx 09 www.tpm-agglo.fr

Size of site 80,000 m² Outdoor spectator facilities 5,500 Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 125,000/23,000

Commissioning 1/2013 46

Construction costs 27,888,000 €

Operating costs in 2012 1,070,000 € sb 5/2015

IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “Stade Léo Lagrange is partly a major outdoor sports development tightly planned on an 8 ha site. The sports components include three football and rugby pitches and a number of school playing fields of various sizes. The grandstand has a simple, yet very ingenious twisting sail that opens up at one point to the east field and then to the west. This element defines the site and provides complete protection to spectators as they move from one side of the seating to the other. This device is poetic, effective, economical and dramatic. At night it creates a stunning landmark cutting across the site. The successful development of playing fields and a dramatic community-scaled stadium on a very compact site earns this project a Bronze award.”

The Jury

A thin white twisted sail crowns the project, with a width of 20m and length of 200 m. 3 arches support it. The longest one has a 145 m span, and all three have a diameter of 70 cm. This minimalistic design serves to fulfil the necessity to cover the stands, whilst also providing the optimal mass to guarantee its balance. It’s the result of very close work between the architect and the structural engineer. This jetty’s light and aerial architecture offers a covered, belvedere-like walkway with close-up views of the sport fields and more distant ones of the horizon and Mount Faron and Coudon.

The self-cleaning fabric roof complex enables the storage of rainwater to water the fields and other green spaces. Solar panels provide the water heating power. All the materials were chosen for their durability and the fact that they are easy to maintain in order to reduce operating costs. By night, the inner-lit textile cover turns into a luminous ribbon, like a wave of light, and gives full expression to the site‘s sporting and event functions.

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Landhausplatz

AWARD 2015

Innsbruck, Austria

The design of the Landhausplatz in Innsbruck is the result of a multi-stage competition. The design process raised many questions dealing with the history and appearance of the site and its role in a constantly evolving urban context. Landhausplatz, the so-called Eduard-Wallnoefer-Platz, presented itself over many years as a neglected place in the centre of the city. The square’s atmosphere and spatial appearance was dominated by the facade of the Tyrolean provincial governmental building constructed during the period of National Socialism, and by an often misinterpreted large scale memorial that actually commemorates Austria’s liberation from fascism. It was required that three other memorials with different historical values were incorporated in the design as well.

So the key question was: How to respond to this difficult historical presence? Further: How can this place be filled with life when taking into consideration all the complex

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requirements of a contemporary city? For the development of the project it was essential to first register the needs and to understand the particularities of the existing urban space, as well as to consider private and public relations. The architectural concept attempted to sculpt this complexity into a topos which engages with city life and city culture.

The architects tried to establish a stage for a new mélange of urban activities characterized by a wide diversity. The realized project consists of a 9,000 sqm concrete floor sculpture.

The new topography creates a landscape-like counterpart to the surrounding urban structure. The sculpture’s accessibility and the layout of paths result from the modulation of the surface, which responds to spatial constraints, functional requirements and respects morphological considerations. This all offers diverse usable open spaces, hills, wells, platforms for monuments and seating – all open to a variety of uses. The topographic shape prevents overuse of the square as an event

Address Eduard-Wallnöfer Platz/ Landhausplatz Eduard-Wallnöfer Platz A-6020 Innsbruck

Architects LAAC Architects Stiefel Kramer Architecture Wilhelm Greil Straße 15 A-6020 Innsbruck www.laac.eu

Client/Operator Land Tirol Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung Eduard-Wallnöfer Platz A-6020 Innsbruck

Commissioning 12/2010

Construction costs 4,000,000 €

Operating costs in 2012 735,400 €

Size of site 9,000 m² Outdoor spectator facilities 242

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IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “The jury liked the idea of creating a landscape as a counterpart to the surrounding urban structure on a site in a constantly evolving urban contrast. It is very important that the square presents a very elegant solution in which the users are the protagonists on this new city stage. For this reason the jury awarded a Bronze medal to this very interesting example which offers open spaces available for different uses, like hills, skating activities and seating areas giving great opportunities injecting life into an important public space.”

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space. On the contrary, due to its architecture and its particularity, it truly embodies freedom.

Landhausplatz was not planned to become a skating area but rather a topography that shall offer unknown potentialities to be determined. Client and planners were aware of this optional use and saw it as an urban quality. Together with the skater community of Innsbruck, a code for skateboarding behaviour – based on traffic regulations – was developed. It enables the simultaneous appropriation and legalizes the use of the place by both skaters and other communities in a sort of car-free shared space.

Due to its formal language and the negotiation that has taken place with its context, the project enables a persistent usability and is adaptable for upcoming movements. This encourages the social sustainability which is evident by the high acceptance and use of the project as well as in the collaboration between operator and user.

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Luanda Multisports Pavilion Luanda, Angola

AWARD 2015

Angola has been undergoing a remarkable development process for the last decade, and become a key country in the context of the African continent as well as an important regional power for the promotion of peace and prosperity in the region. Its capital city, Luanda, is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city, mirroring the new reality that is spreading to all of the country. In this context, Angola was selected to be the first African nation to host the Rink Hockey World Cup in 2013, and the pavilion was designed as the main venue for the event.

The ground level is extensively glazed and encompasses all public entrances and the main circulation gallery - a ring surrounding the arena - giving access to the grandstands and to all their auxiliary spaces. Two thirds of the grandstand seats are accessible from this level, without any need for the use of staircases or lifts. The rest of the grandstand seats are located on the second level, and are accessible by staircases ascending from the gallery. The first level houses all VIP and media areas, and is accessible directly from the outside, via the VIP entrance.

The building is organized in 4 levels, the lowest one being underground and housing all the technical areas and auxiliary spaces for the sports events, such as locker rooms and training areas for athletes, storage, parking and safety exits from the arena. This level is shaped like a stepped podium on the outside, allowing easy access to all the perimeter of the building at ground level.

All horizontal circulations of the upper levels of the pavilion are organized as peripheral external galleries. The climatic characteristics of Luanda precipitated the devising of this solution, reducing the energy consumption that an enclosed solution would entail, and using the galleries as an active element in the natural ventilation of the internal spaces and as a first line of protection against the elements.

Address Pavilhão Multidesportivo de Luanda (Luanda Multisports Pavilion) Kilamba - Luanda - Angola

Architects Berger, Architects Condominio Atelier dos Sonhos, Bloco 1 Apartamento 101, Talatona AO-Luanda www.berger.co.ao

Client/Operator OMATAPALO, engenharia & construção, SA. Beirro do Chioco, Zona Industrial AO-2, LUBANGO, HUÍLA www.omatapalo.com

Size of site 120,000 m² Indoor spectator facilities 12,267 Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 680/85,654

Commissioning 9/2013 50

Construction costs 64,529,276 €

Operating costs in 2014 2,242,646 € sb 5/2015

IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “This multisports hall has the power to promote prosperity and peace, and also to host major sporting events at the national and international level.

The design incorporates good solutions for ventilation and cooling. The ground levels and functional levels have been organised for external uses and different sports. The open galleries are supported by a tensioned, perforated canvas which reduces exposure to sun and rain.”

The Jury

In order to ensure the effectiveness of this solution, the architects needed to guarantee the shading of the galleries and to reduce their exposure to wind and rain. For that purpose they developed modular elements, comprising a metallic structure that gives support to a tensioned perforated canvas – the so-called “sails”. Their modularity is, however, animated by the placement of these elements as “scales”, which, depending on the different angles from which they are observed, seem to be isolated entities and expose the interior space, or overlap each other thus hiding it. This results in an undulating pattern that seems to envelop the entire pavilion.

The LED lighting of these elements further reinforces this formal effect at night, with varying colour and intensity, lending even more expression to the iconic character of the pavilion.

The future of the pavilion is to consolidate its position as the Angola main performance venue for indoor disciplines, gradually becoming the main training and performing stage for the National Teams.

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Bossard Arena

AWARD 2015

Zug, Switzerland

Entering Bossard Arena, one can already see the ice rink from the entrance doors. It is not hidden behind the stands, as is customary, but is sunk into the basement along with the rooms for logistics and operations. The square in front of the stadium, the biggest of the town of Zug, flows into the stadium. The stadium, the outside skating rink and the high-rise building Uptown are united under one roof.

All rooms for operations – delivery, changing rooms, players’ rooms, utility rooms, storage and even parking for team coaches – are placed in the basement, segregated from visitors. The entry level is kept free: The main entrance leads from the square in front of the stadium into a glazed circuit around the arena bowl. On the outside walls of the bowl [food stalls, toilets and control rooms are located. Passages and stairs lead onto the stands.

Address Bossard Arena General-Guisan-Strasse 4 CH-6303 Zug www.bossard-arena.ch

Architects Scheitlin Syfrig Architekten AG Brünigstrasse 25 CH-6005 Luzern www.scheitlin-syfrig.ch

The old stadium discharged heat into the lake. The new stadium reuses the cooling units’ waste heat to heat the stadium, the high-rise building Uptown, a big apartment building nearby (170 apartments), and a sports hall. The roof is covered with photovoltaic panels and covers the energy demand of 40 households. The Bossard Arena is the first low-energy-consumption ice stadium in Switzerland and was certified with the Minergie label.

The Bossard Arena has become a favourite place for visitors.

The seamless connection between interior and exterior makes the stadium a vivid place before the start of the game and during breaks. The indoor climate is very pleasant, at normal room temperature with no freezing and no sweating. As a result, the number of female visitors has risen significantly.

Also the total amount of visitors has tremendously increased,

Client/Operator Stadtverwaltung Zug Stadthaus am Kolinplatz Postfach 1258 CH-6301 Zug

Size of site 21,200 m² Indoor spectator facilities 6,944 Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 93,898/169,752

Commissioning 7/2010 52

Construction costs 455,890,000 €

Operating costs in 2014 1,330,000 € sb 5/2015

IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “According to the jury, the Bossard Arena in Zug, Switzerland, is a fine example of a modern ice arena. Besides the rink itself, there is a multi-storey building and gym. The far-reaching canopy provides a pleasant contrast to the building and the urban square spread out in front. The canopy covers a public ice rink that makes the site attractive for the general public. The energy concept of the multifunctional facility receives particular commendation for its exemplary use of the heat derived from the cooling of the ice surfaces for heating the multi-storey building.�

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with 80% of the seats sold as season tickets. The places for Dine & View (dinner while watching) are sold out most of the time, surely also thanks to a high quality of food. The food stands, as they are only a short distance from anywhere, attract people all the time. The stadium is used for more than just ice hockey: Multiple times a year, events like music shows or general assemblies are held here, with rising demand. A sprinkler system will be installed very soon to use the stadium for even bigger non-ice events.

Visitors love to come, the team is successful and the town of Zug is proud of its Bossard Arena.

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TornhØjhallen

AWARD 2015

Aalborg, Denmark

Tornhøj School in Aalborg is a public school in a socio-economically challenged area on the city’s outskirts. In 2010 local institutions initiated an intense user-involvement process with representatives from the school, the sports clubs and the local residents. The aim was to define a new vision to develop the school’s sports halls and outdoor areas into a more open, welcoming and active centre for the entire neighbourhood. The primary scope was to open up the hall and connect it more effectively with the adjacent school and the surrounding outdoor sports areas. In order to achieve this goal, three main transformations were introduced: First, a new transparent extension connecting the outdoor area and the main areas of the sports hall was designed. This extension contains a café, meeting rooms and spaces for e-sports. Secondly, the outdoor area was redesigned and furnished with new equipment for playing, exercising and relaxing. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the entire indoor facility was restructured through new internal openings, a new distribution of functions and three new large activity landscapes built out of wood.

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Long dark corridors were broken up and openings to the sports hall and the outdoors were established. A series of “in-between zones” was created and activated by new training and playing landscapes that can be used spontaneously or integrated in the training programmes of local clubs. These landscapes invite both school children, kids who come in from the streets and members of sports clubs to stay, play, exercise and enhance their motor skills. The elements placed partly in the former corridor and partly in the main hall serve as a training circuit with 10 stations for working-out or stretching. The design attempts to combine the function and appearance of furniture used for lounging, staying, resting and watching, with equipment for more active use.

In the two motoric landscapes, placed on either side of the wall dividing the main hall and the minor hall, a series of niches, obstacles and tools seek to provide the same integration of resting and being active in order to minimize the

Address TornhØjhallen TornhØjvej 1 DK-9220 Aalborg Ost www.tornhoejskolen.dk

Architects KEINGART - space activators Gothersgade 11 DK-1123 Copenhagen www.koark.dk

Client/Operator Aalborg Kommune Sundheds- og Kulturforvaltningen Fritidsomradet Godthabsgade 8 DK-9400 NØrresundby

Commissioning 5/2012

Construction costs 1,100,000 €

Operating costs in 2014 100,000 €

Size of site 20,000 m² Number of athletes in 2014 60,000

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IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “Many sports halls in Europe face the same problem.

Built to meet school sports requirements 30 years ago, they are no longer in line with the needs of today’s children. This project shows an exemplary solution of how an existing sports hall structure can be given new life and spirit. By installing a “motoric landscape” inside the cubic hall room, the designers have given new attractiveness to the building and created new interior spaces that offer room for diverse activities. They found a playful and joyful ­answer to children’s interest in exercise and show how old building structures can gain new meaning.”

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distance between these two conditions. Service areas as the dressing rooms were refurbished thematically in order to create different atmospheres with a less institutionalized look.

The restructuring of the entire existing building, combined with the minor extension, has led to a much more intensive use of all the existing square metres and represents an ecologically as well as an economically sustainable alternative to the construction of large new building sections that should be heated, operated and maintained. Natural materials such as birch wood were chosen for most of the elements because of their local origin and because they can be easily dismantled and reused. At the same time they create a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

The combination of the new facilities and the employment of activity-coordinating staff made it possible to open up the facility, and build a successful bridge between school and leisure activities. As a possible consequence of these initiatives, problems in the surrounding streets have actually been reduced.

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BG Zehnergasse

AWARD 2015

Vienna, Austria

The project „BG Zehnergasse“ consists of the extension to a school from the 1960s, which today is “home” to 1,000 students and has a special focus on sports. The project positioned the school as a central sports and community centre for the entire neighbourhood. All facilities are open to the neighbourhood and to sports associations. The new sports buildings extend the existing sport facilities with a third indoor gym hall, additional exercise and break rooms (extra sports spaces), a fitness club (organized by the pupils and co-financed with sponsoring) as well as a pergola to be used as an outdoor sports arena.

Architects and teachers believe that sports and exercise can and should be done anywhere and especially throughout the whole school day – not just during the sports classes in the gym halls. This is why the school extension is entirely oriented towards differentiated

Address BG Zehnergasse Zehnergasse 15 AT-2700 Wiener Neustadt www.bgzehnwn.ac.at

Architects GABU Heindl Architektur Schottenfeldgasse 72/2/8 AT-1070 Wien www.gabuheindl.at

outdoor spaces (several courtyards, each with a different focus), a consistent inside/outside relationship between the school spaces, which themselves are of very different sizes and qualities. The project includes spaces beyond the classic standard gym hall: spaces of in-between sizes and for new sports, such as the “outdoor gym-hall” of the pergola courtyard (for slacklines or high-climbing) or the fitness club. All sports spaces have a transparent facade to the outdoor sports fields.

The two new building additions by GABU Heindl Architektur to the existing grammar school (Steinfelder/Jaksch, 1962-64) refresh the existing typology by creating a series of new courtyards: front garden, library court, afternoon court and pergola courtyard (as “outdoor gym”). The outdoor classrooms, benches, ramps, and the roof terrace give space to a concept of learning and moving as something that takes place anywhere.

Client/Operator Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H. Hintere Zollamtsstraße 1 AT-1030 Wien www.big.at

Size of site 18,900 m² Indoor spectator facilities 1,000 Outdoor spectator facilities 400

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Construction costs 1,500,000 €

Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 1,200/1,200 sb 5/2015

IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “The jury believes that the architects succeeded in developing this project in perfect harmony with the philosophy of the school. 100 teachers and 1000 students had been asked to review the possibility of using any space in the existing building for sports or leisure activities in addition to the development of the new programme for a sports hall and classrooms.�

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The gym hall is designed for daylight use without the need of extra artificial light. Additional low energy fixtures keep the energy costs low. Deep roofs block off direct sunlight, and an automatized night cooling system cools down the building without air conditioning and keeps operating costs at a minimum.

As part of the project the school and the sports facilities have been remodelled to be barrier-free, e.g. a new entrance and access starting from the forecourt make it possible for all visitors and students to meet at the same forecourt. This entrance also opens up at night for neighbourhood courses and evening school. At the entrance a site plan is situated in colour print and in braille. The sports foyer is equipped with a new ramp that connects the different levels and eliminates all need for stairs.

Ramps are situated at major exits and entrances in the courtyards. Acoustic and visual emergency warnings complement the overall signage system.

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Centre sportif Jules Ladoumegue

AWARD 2015

Paris, France

The Paris transport authority decided to erect its maintenance facility for the new tram line on a city sports ground near the boulevard périphérique, the ring road of Paris. As one of the busiest roads in Europe, it is the generally accepted boundary between the city of Paris proper and its suburbs. The new soccer and rugby fields – both conforming to international standards – are situated on the roof of the maintenance centre, eight metres above the ground, at the same level with the boulevard périphérique boarding the site on the West. The facilities also comprise a multi-functional area (handball, volleyball and basketball) and tennis courts. Corridors connect the pitches with each other and the design of the ground surfaces combines paths of porous concrete with planted zones. The trees are distributed in two green areas, one of which is an accessible garden planted with cherry trees.

Address Centre sportif Jules Ladoumègue 1 avenue de la Porte de Pantin F-75019 Paris

Architects DFA Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes 80 rue Edouard Vaillant F-93100 Montreuil www.feichtingerarchitectes.com

On the west boundary of the rooftop level is located a 200m long building with six covered tennis courts, which provides a visual and acoustic barrier to the boulevard périphérique.

The tennis building is clad with cellular polycarbonate panels.

These alternating red and colourless panels facing the boulevard are arranged like a keyboard which is a humorous reference to the Cité de la Musique and Philharmonie which is located right opposite. Fixed horizontal timber solar shading screens the east facade, the other facades have adjustable vertical lamellas to increase or decrease solar gain as desired.

The building of the new sport centre comprises four floors dedicated to different sport activities. A multipurpose hall on the 2nd floor and a club house, dance hall, gym, fitness room and squash fields on the 4th floor around a wooden patio, surrounded by glassed sliding doors which serve to link the spaces visually. The 12m high climbing area is integrated in the base and forms a unity of its own.

Client/Operator Mairie de Paris Direction de la Jeunesse et des Sports 25 boulevard Bourdon F-75004 Paris

Size of site 29,147 m² Indoor spectator facilities 100 Number of athletes in 2014 273,000

Commissioning 1/2014 58

Construction costs 26,700,000 € sb 5/2015

IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “The Jules Ladoumègue Sports Centre is an impressive urban sports complex designed for a wide variety of functions. The notions of space, urban integration and functionality, but also those of light, transparency and comfort of use deeply to the design. The sports complex is thus a perfect example of exploiting scarce available land within an urban context. By positioning the buildings along the edges of the plot, it has been possible to clearly delimit the public areas and shield the outside areas on the inside from traffic. ” The Jury

The building, which has been partly placed on the roof slab, is connected by a monumental external staircase between the street level and the sport fields. The generous dimensions of the staircase echo the size of the roof level, its unlimited view onto the urban surroundings and the impressive belvedere on the channel Ourcq.

The interaction between the new sports facility and the ‘Pagode’ building from the ‘70s designs a new “entry” in front of the recently built tramway station. The expressive style of the Pagode on the one hand and the transparency and lightness of the new building on the other, create a strong identity.

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Regent Park Aquatic Centre

AWARD 2015

Toronto, Canada

Located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Regent Park is Canada’s oldest and largest social housing project, built in the late 1940s. The community has historically been viewed as a transitional community for new immigrants, but due to social and physical planning ills, it has contributed to the concentration of a socially marginalised population. 41% of the population living in Regent Park is under 18, and over 70% of the population lives below the low-income cut-off rate.

purpose swimming pool facility that includes a 25m, 6-lane pool, leisure pool, tot pool, hot tub, slide, Tarzan rope, and diving board. Replacing an existing outdoor pool, the project was mandated to capture a feeling of transparency and connection to the outdoors.

In 2005, the City of Toronto’s Regent Park Revitalisation began a 12-year programme to redevelop the 69-acre community into a vibrant mixed-use, mixed-income community.

The Regent Park Aquatic Centre, completed in 2012, is the key civic amenity centred on the eastern flank of the new central park development as the ‘heart of the revitalisation’.

The Aquatic Centre is the first facility in Canada to adopt the singular use of universal changing rooms, no longer separating males and females, rather than the usual changing rooms with private change cubicles. This establishes equality; addressing cultural and gender identity issues, while also enhancing the openness, safety, and visibility through the entire complex. The facility also has two double-sliding, glass doors off the main pool hall for sunbathing access to the park-side terrace, as well as natural ventilation opportunities.

Regent Park Aquatic Centre has been conceived as a ‘Pavilion in the Park’, very open at the base, and bisected lengthwise by a ‘dorsal fin’ of aquatic hall sky-lighting. It is a multi-

The Centre has been designed to the City of Toronto’s Green Building Standards. It utilises the Regent Park Central Energy Supply System. The Aquatics Hall has a green roof and a

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Address Regent Park Aquatic Centre 640 Dundas Street East CN-Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2B8 www1.toronto.ca/parks/prd/ facilities/complex/2012/

Architects MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA) 202 - 19 Duncan Street CN-Toronto, Ontario, M5H 3H1 www.mjmarchitects.com

Client/Operator City of Toronto 640 Dundas Street East CN-Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2B8 www.toronto.ca

Commissioning 11/2012

Construction costs 10,800,000 €

Operating costs in 2014 437,114 €

Size of site 23,168 m² Number of athletes in 2014 110,000

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IOC/IAKS AWARD 2015

BRONZE “Regent Park Aquatic Centre, a “pavilion in the park”, is a significant milestone in the social rebuilding of the area. The Aquatic Centre is a strikingly simple, functional and elegant response to aquatic facility design.

Composed primarily of an active swimming component and parallel changing room zone, the design enables users from any point in the building including the changing rooms to view the surrounding park and neighbourhood.

The jury was impressed with the ability of the design team to infuse the aquatic and changing room area with natural light while controlling the actual glass size. This is part of an overall use of materials that is both restrained and effective. For this exceptional and sensitive community-building facility, the jury awards the Regent Park Aquatic Centre a Bronze medal.”

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white, ballasted, calcite roof, augmented by underground cisterns for site water stewardship, designed as a fifth elevation; seamlessly integrating with the building features and park setting. The building features high-efficiency mechanical and electrical systems with energy management controls and pool dehumidification with heat recovery. The pool has been designed to use natural ventilation when the sliding doors to the terrace are open in suitable weather conditions.

The building form was shaped to utilise its solar orientation. A large canopy to the south forms a generous public veranda at the main entrance, while a low continuous window overlooking the park to the west provides views and minimises heat gain from the afternoon sun. The building is bisected lengthwise by a large ‘dorsal fin’ skylight; sunlight is reflected into the natatorium at the threshold between the pool deck and the changing rooms.

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London 2012 Shooting Venue

AWARD 2015

London, United Kingdom

Three Olympic and Paralympic Shooting Arenas were the venue of the competitions in 10, 25 and 50m sport shooting at the 2012 Summer Games in the southeast London district of Woolwich. Designed to be dismantled and relocated after the Games the buildings were in line with the London 2012 strategy of avoiding white elephants after the Games by constructing temporary buildings. The temporary nature of the buildings also enabled to bring the shooting competitions to a more central location than at previous Games. The athletes, the International Shooting Sport Federation and the visitors profited greatly from the location close to the Olympic Park and other Olympic venues.

Shooting is a sport in which the results and progress of the competition are hardly visible to the eye of the spectator. The design of the shooting venue was driven by the desire to evoke an experience of flow, precision, force and impact inherent in the shooting sport through a dynamically curving space. The strong visual image helped to convey the sport to the more than 100,000 visitors of the shooting competitions.

Address London 2012 Olympic & Paralymplc Shooting Venue Ha-Ha Road UK-London SE18

Architects magma architecture Ostermann & Kleinheinz Charlottenstraße 95 D-10969 Berlin www.magmaarchitecture.com

The three buildings form a campus on the green field of the historic Royal Artillery Barracks in London-Woolwich. The up to 107m long facades constructed without any joints refer to the rhythmically structured length of the Royal Artillery Barracks building, but have their own contemporary architectural expression. The fresh and light appearance of the buildings enhances the festive and celebrative character of the Olympic event.

Sustainability was a key factor in shaping the design. The solution designed can be built rapidly, then demounted and relocated for future uses. Key objectives were to minimize the use of materials for construction and the consumption of energy during operation, and to provide a structure that could be easily stored, transported and reused in a different location.

The venue’s modular frame is built up using a kit of standardized, lightweight steel trusses that are widely available for rent from temporary works firms. The venue has been described as the “most sustainable of Olympic temporary venues” because of its exclusive use of standardized steel framework. The field Client/Operator ISSF Headquarter Bavariaring 21 D-80336 Munich www.issf-sports.org

Size of site 200,000 m² Indoor spectator facilities 3,800 Outdoor spectator facilities 3,100

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BRONZE “At a time where specialised sport facilities with questionable legacy use come in for criticism, the temporary structure proposed by London 2012 is of great interest for sport venues like shooting ranges.

The solution is innovative and visionary. The architects have demonstrated that good design is also applicable to an ephemeral structure. The jury believes that this project can be a good case study for future organisers of big sport events.”

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of play enclosures of the two prequalification ranges were reassembled in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games in 2014.

All three seating block covers are configured in a crisp, white double curved membrane façade studded with vibrantly colored dots. As well as animating the façade they operate as tensioning nodes, ventilation openings and doorways at ground level. The PVC membrane was selected for its tensile strength, lightness, thermal performance, translucency and environmental properties – it is 100% recyclable. Steel rings braced against a structural framework push and pull the outer skin, tensioning it to prevent ‘fluttering’ in the wind. The steel rings also provide openings for ventilation and doorways at ground level. Because of the introduction of a second inner membrane the buildings are naturally ventilated: The roughly 2m wide void between the inner and outer fabric skins provides an insulation layer and initiates an airflow, with warm air rising and exiting through the high level ventilation extracts and drawing in cooler fresh air at low level.

Daylight emitted though the fabric limits the need for artificial illumination.

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NCC Rideau Canal Skateway Facilities

AWARD 2015

Ottawa, Canada

The Rideau Canal is an internationally recognized, UNESCO World Heritage Site which winds through Ottawa creating a green corridor extending to the heart of the city. In winter, the National Capital Commission (NCC) transforms the canal into a winter recreation space, the Rideau Canal Skateway.

The Rideau Canal Skateway facilities are seven seasonal shelters which are hoisted into place each year to provide skaters with changing and washroom facilities. Located at four key nodes along the canal, the shelters are points of access along “the world’s largest naturally frozen skating rink”.

The Skateway is used at all times of the day and night.

Avid skaters can be seen during their morning commute to downtown offices. Small groups glide along on moonlit nights. School groups use the Skateway as a daytrip destination. Tens of thousands of people flock to the canal on winter weekends. The Skateway is the focal point for Winterlude, the Capital’s winter festival, which attracts hundreds of thousands of people each year. The Skateway hosted one

Address NCC Rideau Canal Skateway Facilities CA-Ottawa www.ncc-ccn.gc.ca

Architects CSV Architects 1066 Somerset St West K1Y 4T3 CA-Ottawa www.csv.ca

million visitors in the 2014-2015 season. The City of Ottawa Economic Development Committee estimates that the annual economic impact of the Winterlude festival is $143m resulting from $56M of direct spending.

The design of the Skateway facilities compliments the diverse history and use of the canal. The unique rib structure and expansive glazing lends each shelter a distinct and modern form. The arched, open web steel structure is inspired by the language of Victorian-era bridges which span the Rideau Canal and is adorned by images of skate blades and sled runners. The structures are lifted by crane onto the canal surface each winter season. Strict height and weight restrictions governed the design. Window and cladding systems were designed to withstand structural flexing during the lift. The changing and washroom facilities feature open air change porches at each end. A long skate changing bench is tucked into the curve of the structure and extends the full length of the building. The bench faces a glazed wall that gives a panoramic view of the Skateway.

Client/Operator National Capital Commission 202-40 Elgin Street K1P 1C7 CA-Ottawa www.ncc-ccn.gc.ca

Size of site 150,000 m² Indoor spectator facilities 43 Outdoor spectator facilities 12

Commissioning 12/2012 64

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BRONZE “These removable changing and washroom facilities impressed the jury with their design simplicity and attractiveness. They show perfectly that, even in sensitive environments, it is possible to find solutions that make leisure activities more attractive. The jury congratulates the NCC and the city for realising this project for creating a place of healthy living. This example invites other cities around the world to follow this path of enhancing seasonal recreational activities in dense urban environments.�

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The shelters meet sustainability goals and withstand heavy seasonal use. Materials are durable and designed to be easily replaced. Phenolic panels were chosen for durability and water resistance. High wear components such as flooring and seating are modular in order to facilitate replacement. Radiant ceiling panels provide the sensation of warmth at low operating temperatures. Aircraft-style toilets minimize water usage and LED lighting reduces energy consumption. Heavy excavation was not permitted on the canal bed, and therefore helical pile foundations were braced by the ice itself in order to resist lateral and uplift loads.

The shelters are fully accessible and provide an opportunity for both skaters and non-skaters to enjoy the activity of the Skateway. The structure is embedded in the ice so that the floor level is inches from the ice surface. Shallow transitional ramps provide convenient wheelchair access. The washrooms are universally accessible.

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Archery Hall and Boxing Club

AWARD 2015

Tokyo, Japan

The project consists of two buildings, an archery hall and a boxing club, standing a few hundred meters apart on the grounds of Kogakuin University in west Tokyo. The formal rituals of Kyudo (Japanese archery) and the very physical nature of boxing may appear worlds apart. However, surprisingly, the two built facilities share a number of commonalities.

The university’s brief was for low-cost structures made of locally-sourced timber to provide accessible and inspiring spaces for the students. By chance, both facilities required a column-free space of 7.2m by 10.8m, a size that is comparable to a sacred hall in a traditional Japanese temple. In order to achieve this span, without columns and using lowcost methods of timber construction, it was necessary to come up with an innovative solution. The architects began the project by investigating a number of structural forms

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Address Archery Hall and Boxing Club Kogakuin University 192-0015 2665-1 Nakanocho, Hachiouiishi, JP-Tokyo www.kogakuin.ac.jp/english

Architects FT ARCHITECTS Katsuya Fukushirna Hiroko Tominaga 154-0012 5-22-3-305 Komazawa,Setagaya JP-Tokyo http://fta.gotohp.jp/

Commissioning 6/2013

Construction costs 406,800 €

that would be appropriate for each sport. Through collaborative exploration with timber experts, from researchers and manufacturers to suppliers, they opted for timber materials that are not commonly associated with structural or architectural usage. Small timber sections, normally reserved for furniture making, were chosen for the archery hall, and timber material deemed to be defective due to insect damage was chosen for the boxing club.

The design salvaged the purity of traditional Japanese timber composition, simply made up of horizontals and verticals, which has been somewhat disregarded ever since the advent of modernism in Japan. A delicate latticed frame composed of slender ties beams and posts was created for the archery hall, and a bolder frame design was employed for the boxing club.

Here, timber, a historical material, has been reanalysed and transformed into a new building material.

Client/Operator Kogakuin University 192-0015 2665-1,Nakanocho,Hachiouiishi, JP-Tokyo, www.kogakuin.ac.jp/english

Size of site 162,103 m²

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BRONZE “These archery and boxing halls have timber structured roofs and a strong link with the surrounding countryside. The roof structure is a traditional Japanese wood construction with lattice frames held together with wood screws. Natural ventilation is also an energy-saving feature. The project strongly expresses a traditional Japanese wooden structure and its ties with nature.�

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The two structures have been constructed employing a simple, low-tech method of bolt-and-nut assembly. However, due to the scale of the space and simplicity of construction, the execution had to be meticulous in order to produce spaces that are out of the ordinary.

For each building, the main subject is the 7.2m x 10.8m space and the timber structure is merely its backdrop. The powerful presence of the timber structure emphasises the stark transparency of the void below. The whole is only achieved by the juxtaposition of these two contrasting and complementing qualities.

Departing from the same starting point, the two buildings have arrived at a shared architectural theme via two different structural and spatial solutions.

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Blocs & Walls Climbing Centre

AWARD 2015

Copenhagen, Denmark

When the Danish Alpine Association was granted funding in 2011 by the municipality of Copenhagen to build an 1,800 m² climbing centre it was obvious that building from scratch in the heart of the city was outside the scope of the project’s budget. On a budget of only € 2.4 m, the climbing hall needed to be 18 meters high, be able to house 2,200 m² of climbing walls, accommodate up to 250 people climbing simultaneously, as well as to offer modern service facilities, offices, a café and a multipurpose activity room. Adding to this dilemma was the fact that the municipality had only granted 50% of the construction sum.

The solution to the challenge was to repurpose a shipyard hall, built in 1954, at Refshaleøen Island. Located at the harbour front only 15 minutes by bike from the city centre, and well serviced by public transportation, the building offered a space of 1,600 m² and 18 meters of height. When the Real Estate Company of Refshaleøen Island offered to fund the missing part of the budget, allowing this part to be paid

Address Blocs & Walls Copenhagen Climbing Center Refshalevej 163 d, 1432 DK-Copenhagen www.blocs-walls.dk

Architects Powerhouse Company Jagtvej 209 st. tv. 2100 DK-Copenhagen www.powerhouse-company.dk

through rent, the Danish Alpine Association commissioned the Powerhouse company to work out the design concept and schedule.

In the design strategy three general considerations have been of importance: • To involve the users in creating an environmentally sustainable canyon-like climbing landscape on a grand scale for athletes of all levels, with as much focus on the social functions of the climbing sport as on the sport itself.

• To take advantage of the existing building and integrate its architectural qualities and structures into the design, thereby keeping both construction and operating costs low.

• To design a flexible and versatile centre capable of being operated economically by an association of volunteers for daily use as well as for sports, social and cultural events.

The design took these considerations into account by dividing the hall into two climatic zones. A bright open climbing zone

Client/Operator The Danish Alpine Association Refshalevej 163 d, 1432 DK-Copenhagen www.blocs-walls.dk www.dbkk.dk

Size of site 1,800 m² Indoor spectator facilities 600 Number of athletes in 2014 56,000

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Construction costs 2,400,000 €

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BRONZE “The City of Copenhagen has converted what was once a shipbuilding shop into a climbing centre impressive for its sheer scale. For this up-andcoming sport, the Blocs & Walls Climbing Centre creates the ideal conditions for both practice and competition. The jury considers the project a successful example of reactivating historical industrial buildings, especially since relatively modest funds have been applied in creating an optimum sporting facility that radiates an ambience of freshness.”

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of 1,500 m² with six areas for socializing, surrounded by colourful climbing walls for climbing at all ability levels, heated to 15 degrees, and a 300 m² central service-core zone containing a fitness centre, the cloakrooms, offices, a multipurpose room on the ground floor and reception, café with lounge areas and a viewing vantage point above on the split-level mezzanine, heated to standard living-room temperature.

The redesign left much of the original building unaltered. This allows the space to be lit by the original clerestory windows, which run uninterrupted along lengths of the building’s south side, as well as by the original skylights in the ceiling.

In addition to its primary use as a climbing centre, the building has the capacity to be used for other big events. With 55,000 visitors during the first year of operation, the climbing centre has become the social hub of an otherwise rather socially neglected part of Copenhagen, as well as the largest climbing centre in Scandinavia.

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UNAH University Sports Complex

DISTINCTION 2015

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

The National Autonomous University of Honduras UNAH developed an architectural and urban master plan for the university’s campus of Tegucigalpa in 2010. This campus serves a student population of 48,254 people. The sports complex consists of a main building for indoor sports, a track and field stadium including a warm-up track, parking area, open plazas, and parks. The architectural concept of the building was to obtain a three-dimensional form representing an original and expressive architecture that would inspire movement and force. The main building is formed by curved metal structures that span up to 90 metres with no intermediate supports. The stadium’s main structure was based mainly on precast concrete and cast-in-place reinforced concrete.

The western segment of the main building offers facilities for Karate, table tennis, Taekwondo, gymnastics and aerobics; all with wooden floors specially designed and certi-

Address University Sports Complex Boulevard Suyapa FM1100 HN-Tegucigalpa

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fied. The central segment holds the main multi-purpose indoor court for basketball, handball, volleyball and indoor football, which has all the equipment and flooring necessary for the safe practice of these sports. The court is surrounded by a seating area for 5,000 spectators. The stadium has a capacity of 7,000 seating spectators, surrounded by a running track and facilities that meet the requirements demanded by the IAAF in order to host regional competitions.

The building has multiple accessibility features that promote the use of the facilities by everyone despite their conditions.

It has 10 parking spaces 3.50m wide and close to the building. All of the entrance points have ramps with a maximum slope of 7% and railings with materials and heights designed according to international codes. There are security points at every access, in order to guide and orient every user entering the building. All exteriors, stairs and ramps have different floor textures that mark a better transition between exterior

Architects Victor Cuadra Burlero + UNAH Department of Infrastructure SEAPI UNAH Guijarros Coporate Building 3rd floor Lomas del Guijarro HN-Tegucigalpa

Client/Operator National Autonomous University of Honduras Boulevard Suyapa Ciudad Universitaria HN-Tegucigalpa www.unah.edu.hn

Size of site 77,000 m²

Construction costs 22,791,948 €

Operating costs in 2014 1,098,948 €

Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 19,050/9,000

Indoor spectator facilities 6,000 Outdoor spectator facilities 8,500

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DISTINCTION “The jury considered this scheme exemplary because it provides accessibility for spectators and also for participants to all areas of the building. In addition to elevators to all levels, a ramp system is also provided enabling easy egress at the end of competitions and also in the event of an emergency or fire.

Wayfinding is excellent using colours on different levels throughout the building, so assisting visually impaired people and those with learning disabilities.

For disabled spectators elevated positions are provided which constitute 15% of the venue’s capacity. At least 20% of all toilet facilities are accessible which exceeds even stringent building codes. Facilities for athletes include a large number of accessible changing rooms and showers.�

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and interior spaces, thus giving more details about the surroundings to people with visual impairment. All doors used for public access are wide, well-signalled, and equipped with opening mechanisms that contribute to faster evacuations during an emergency.

Two elevators equipped with sound and braille signalisation carry users to every floor of the building. The central court and track and field stadium have seating spaces for wheelchair users along the highest area within their perimeter, giving perfect sightlines to the events. These spaces represent more than 15% of the capacity. Each bathroom unit contains at least one accessible toilet, with dimensions and features regulated by international codes. There are 36 accessible toilets in total, making for 20% of all the facility. The track and field stadium offers completely accessible bathrooms, showers and dressing rooms specially designed for Paralympic athletes, with access through ramps with adequate widths, illumination and signalling. All signals have high contrast and are specially located favouring at all times quick and easy visibility to all athletes and users.

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Ray & Joan Kroc Community Center

DISTINCTION 2015

Guayama, Puerto Rico

The Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center is located in Guayama, on the southwestern coast of the Island of Puerto Rico in a six-acre plot of land that was a gift of the Interamerican University Guayama campus. Students and faculty of the university, as well as members of the surrounding disadvantaged communities are the core users of the facilities.

The project, a structure of approximately 6,500 square meters, consists of a variety of modules that house enclosed basketball courts, gymnasium, administrative office, aerobics room, food court, child care center, outdoor aquatic facilities, social services offices and a multipurpose auditorium and chapel. All spaces are organized around a central open air court that serves as the main circulation and principal interaction space providing natural illumination and cross ventilation essential to a welldesigned sustainable project.

Address The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Community Center at Guayama Carr. 744 KM 1.1 Guayama PR 00784

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The enclosed basketball courts also serve as a multipurpose activity hall for community events, graduations, concerts and, in case of a major hurricane event, the hall is designed to shelter and feed the homeless and those that might require special assistance during and after an atmospheric catastrophe.

The child care center hours of operation, beyond the normal 8 to 5 schedule, also provides services to working parents and to single mothers during the evening hours while attending classes at the university. The elderly are encouraged to participate in group exercises and continuing education seminars while children and adolescents are particularly attracted to organized sports and the enjoyment of the playgrounds and the pool facilities.

The center has lots of accessibility features as accessible transport areas and parking spaces (barrier-free drop-off area, eight fully accessible parking spaces, same-level access from acces-

Architects SCF Architects Architect Alberto Ferrer, AIA 13 Calle 2 Suite 201 Metro Office Park Guaynabo PR 00968 www.scf-pr.com

Client/Operator The Salvation Army Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Division 1679 Ave. Ponce de León Esq. Calle San Jorge San Juan PR 00909

Size of site 23,218 m²

Construction costs 15,630,000 €

Operating costs in 2014 1,129.027 €

Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 4.344/110.322

Indoor spectator facilities 600 Outdoor spectator facilities 80

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DISTINCTION “This project demonstrates high-quality, imperceptible accessibility, producing a project without steps, wide walkways, open spaces, and no ramps in entrances and approaches to all circulation areas. In all functional areas, accessible changing and accessible toilets are provided. Throughout the building there are options for using separate unisex accessible toilets or accessible cubicles within the men’s and women’s bathrooms. All areas offer level access whilst the children’s pool and the main pool are accessed via ramps.

The shower area offers good accessibility with different options combining different light showers and easy-to-read controls. The meeting room and chapel offer good accessibility to the seating area and also a platform lift to provide access onto the stage.”

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sible parking to entrance), accessible entrance and circulation areas (footpaths, ramps, stairways, surfaces) as well as a barrierfree courtyard and an accessible playground.

The sports area features an accessible adult swimming pool ramp for wheelchairs, a fully accessible children’s pool ramp, adjustable-height and retractable basketball backboards (height accessible), seating spaces for wheelchair users, accessible toilets and ten fully accessible restrooms throughout the project.

Signages are visible and readable by those in wheelchairs and those with a visual impairment via tactile surfaces and contrasts, accessible braille signage (tactile) with high contrast lettering is provided throughout all room entrances.

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Edmonds Community Centre

DISTINCTION 2015

Burnaby, Canada

The Edmonds Community Centre is located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. This project has significant social importance to the community. The neighbourhood is a mix of well-established cultural groups as well as new immigrants to Canada. Thus, it needed to be recognisable as a community centre, and unintimidating to those unfamiliar with public recreation.

The aquatics area has a six-lane 25-metre pool, 15-metre warm-water practice lanes, leisure pool with double current channel, double waterslide, and innovative accessibility features. LED fixtures were used, including overhead lane lighting to guide swimmers, and colour-changing installations inside the pool tanks. The rest of the centre includes 1,115 m² twin gymnasium, 650 m² fitness area, 280 m² active studio, multi-purpose rooms, community living room, coffee shop, spacious lobby with seating, games room, youth centre, seniors lounge, indoor playground and snooker room.

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Adapted equipment and features were incorporated throughout Edmonds Community Centre to make recreation more accessible to people with a physical disability. A designated drop-off and pick-up area is located at the entrance of the facility, where seniors or disabled visitors to the centre can access the building from a convenient location. Handicap parking spaces also exist around the building: there are three spots available on the surface parking area, and additional spaces underground.

There is a slight grade change to the site that the building sits upon and it was desirable to create a facility without stairs at the entrances. Gentle slopes and ramps were used to make the building accessible to all patrons. Elevators, also with braille for the visually impaired, exist for access between floors. The reception counter has a barrier-free area for any visitors in a wheelchair.

Address Edmonds Community Centre and Fred Randall Pool V3N 1B1 CA-Burnaby, British Columbia www.burnaby.ca

Architects CEI Architecture 500-1500 West Georgia Street CA-Vancouver, BC V6G 2Z6 www.ceiarchitecture.com

Client/Operator City of Burnaby 4949 Canada Way CA-Burnaby, BC V5G 1M2 www.burnaby.ca

Commissioning 6/2013

Construction costs 23,286.540 €

Operating costs in 2014 4,249,450 €

Size of site 11,700 m² Number of athletes/spectators in 2014 900,000

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DISTINCTION “The jury particularly liked the sense of imperceptible accessibility in this facility. A community sports centre and pool with an accessible entrance includes a canopy and signage making it easy to locate for visually impaired people, people with learning disabilities and those with mobility issues.

There are no ramps and this venue has no steps, only level-access throughout and wide, easy-access circulation areas. A ‘seniors space’ is arranged close to the main entrance making it easy to locate. All of the water features and pools are accessible via ramps which are easy to use independently, including accessibility to the hot tub. Plentiful accessible changing rooms are provided and are integrated into the mainstream facilities.”

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The main pool includes a water elevator and portable lift for ease of access. Both the leisure pool and hot tub are zero-entry, with the hot tub having a handrail. Another main recreation area in the centre is the weight room, which includes various adapted equipment. Bi-level drinking fountains are located throughout the facility. Universal washrooms exist on each level, allowing attendants of the opposite sex to enter the washroom in the event the disabled person is in need of assistance.

Public acceptance of the community centre was demonstrated from day one: an estimated 4,000 people attended the grand opening. The first six months of operations saw over 370,000 visits to the Centre, and visitation grew to nearly 900,000 visits in 2014.

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Sports4Peace Nicosia, Cyprus

Philippos Michael & Panayiotis Savva Cyprus is a small island on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea with a huge cultural and historical background. However, it is strongly characterized by a very unique attribute; it is entirely divided in two parts, the Northern and the Southern one.

This was caused by the Turkish occupation after the invasion of 1974. This division is made apparent by a single green line drawn across the map. Nevertheless, in real scale, this line, called the buffer zone, varies from 3 km to 3 m wide.

Following the example of Nelson Mandela in South Africa, the designers suggested that sports could be the intermediary between the two parties, following the greater cause of reuniting the state. In their vision, a common ground would be recreated so that everyone would have the chance to participate. Furthermore, it is essential that new organisations are created, consisting of people from both sites, so that they are able to harmoniously implement the whole project. Looking further into the future, the project could be the start of new national teams, comprised of players from all over Cyprus that will unite fans, players and finally the people of Cyprus.

Architects (Students) Philippos Michael Nicosia,Cyprus Panayiotis Savva Nicosia,Cyprus University University of Cyprus

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Activity surface area indoors • 2,000 m² • Gym, offices, café, mini shop, badminton court, squash court, ping-pong tables Activity surface area outdoors • 4,000 m² • Multipurpose court, tennis court, beach volley court, space for field & track practise, basketball practise spaces

IOC/IPC/IAKS Architecture and Design Award for Students and Young Professionals 2015 The architects used urbanity to create an urban park facilitating sports activities. The site is located in the heart of the traditional core of Nicosia, in the abandoned no man’s land. This deserted site is surrounded by traditional buildings that follow the character of the old town. They restored two of them to host the offices of the new organisations and other functions.

The designers created a new pedestrian crossing through the site that connects two major squares of the old city, one on either site of the buffer zone. The landscape planning will also suggest unity through a new way of crossing to the other side.

At both sites of the entrance there are new ways of entering the buffer zone: Instead of the formal military check points that are in existence now, the designers propose a simple system with member’s cards that only implements formal checks when exiting the site on the opposite side.

The crossing of the site is made both over ground and on ground level. Through it one can experience the sports activities as a simple spectator or one can also engage with the athletes. The design provides several chances to spectate on both

Innovative features • Walkable roofs with courts, used both for watching games, or moving through the site • Integration of views (see and be seen) through the site • Zoning and organization through materiality • Changeable LED floor boundary lines by ASB glass-floor • Use of blind walls as climbing walls and graffiti opportunities

Barrier-free accessibility and universal design features • Located in the buffer zone, where no one from either site is excluded • Accessibility features for people with disabilities (ramps and elevators) • Extended uses, rather than just sport facilities, like café

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GOLD “The designers use sport as an activity and as a destination to build a social bridge between Northern and Southern parts of Cyprus. Strategically located in the current buffer zone that divides the county, their design concept creates a multi-sports destination and encourages dynamic movement and interaction. The design integrates indoor and outdoor spaces in an extremely effective way and maximises the range of both active and social experiences on the site. Movement between the two levels of the building as well as to the surrounding neighbourhood is facilitated by a large ramp that acts as both a design element and social connector. The jury was impressed by the goals of the designers and their ability to achieve them in a mature, exciting and evocative design, and awards this submission a Gold medal.�

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levels with the use of benches, tiers, bleachers and even places to watch an ongoing game. The paths meet from both sites on the centre of the high ground where a square has been erected with bleachers to emphasize it. Some temporary events can take place here, such as speeches, presentations or even coach and player meetings. The main buildings consist of the cafĂŠ, the renovated offices, a kiosk and an open gym. We mostly play team sports, which we encourage with the fields and courts we have created, so that mixed teams can be formed using players of both sides.

On site, there is a multi-sports court (basketball, handball, mini football, volleyball), tennis, beach volleyball, squash, badminton courts, a track and field space and ping-pong tables. In addition, a sports centre, called Sports4Peace, will be networked throughout the city and connected with other sports complexes on both sides, such as swimming pools, football fields and basketball courts. Therefore advantage can be taken of the existing sports facilities, further consolidating the importance and future progress of the project.

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Actus Quebec City, Canada Vincent Morissette

This project focuses on the ability of physical activity to facilitate social integration, celebrate diversity and enable personal fulfilment. Actus proposed the implementation of a multisport, community-oriented centre on a site that is located between two central and socio-economically mixed neighbourhoods of Quebec City: Limoilou and St. Roch.

The implementation and project materiality are inspired by the Iandscape as well as the industrial history of the site, which was formerly occupied by a shipyard containing various wharves and jetties. Thus, a connection between the city and nature is re-established by the creation of a gradual transition between the urban fabric of the St. Roch district and the waterfront landscape.

The project is inspired by active design, which encourages healthy lifestyles by creating and multiplying the opportunities to exercise within the buildings and the urban space.

In order to meet the needs of different users, two distinct

Architect (Student) Vincent Morissette Quebec, Canada University Université Laval, Quebec City

Activity surface area indoors • 4,775 m² • Semi-Olympic pool, flexible gymnasium, fitness room, climbing wall, dojo, multipurpose space Activity surface area outdoors • 3,491 m² • Docks for watersports, visitor centre, outdoor gym, playgrounds

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IOC/IPC/IAKS Architecture and Design Award for Students and Young Professionals 2015 structural systems were favoured by taking advantage of the versatility and flexibility of wood. The areas requiring a large surface use a hybrid structure of open web joists made of glulam, while other areas use a simplified system of beams and columns with wooden joist systems.

The building contains several social spaces such as a café overlooking the gymnasium, an exhibition area for the development of a healthy lifestyle, an agora and urban lounges opening onto outdoor public spaces. The spaces dedicated to the practice of physical activity are a flexible gymnasium, a fitness room overlooking a semi-Olympic pool, a climbing wall, a dojo and a multipurpose space dedicated to various physical activities and classes such as dance, yoga and pilates. The outdoor areas of the building also hold functions that support the practice of physical activity. A new trench in the ground recreates the old docks and once again welcomes water to the site: lt now serves as a dock for water sports such as kayaking

Innovative features • Sports facilities overlook the landscape and made visible in order to showcase physical activity • Creation of a pavilion for nautical sports as well as for fishers

Barrier-free accessibility and universal design features • System of ramps evolving around a central climbing wall • Visual and functional links • Encourgaement of wheelchair users to practice physical activities

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SILVER “The jury awarded the Actus project in Quebec City a Silver medal for its sensitive positioning in the environment and for its fine and skilled detailing. The atmospheric approach and the choice of wood as the material venerate sport and exercise as important social factors. Programme-wise, the project provides an abundance of social spaces accompanying the sports facilities. The jury appreciates the convincing orientation of the pool facility to the St. Charles River.

The various building components are arranged in a step-like topographic manner, unfolding towards the waterside. Consideration has been given to sustainability and ventilation as well as to universal accessibility. The jury also acknowledges the high quality of the graphic presentation.�

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and canoeing as well as a visitor centre for cyclists and runners enjoying the linear park along the river. An urban esplanade was designed as an extension of the surrounding neighbourhood, and creates an outdoor gym and playgrounds for activities such as petanque and croquet.

The building is designed to be accessible by the greatest number of people, regardless of their physical ability or social background. The building is universally accessible through a system of ramps surrounding a central climbing wall, which showcases physical activity by creating visual and functional links between the various uses. Thus, users in wheelchairs are encouraged to practice physical activity and can benefit from similar experiences to the rest of the users. All sport amenities and outdoor areas are accessible thanks to spatial continuity, allowing anyone to stroll along a path linking the different areas, and thus promotes a healthy lifestyle.

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Daegu Sports Court South Korea Mauricio Vieto Perez, Natalie Kwee, Caio Caesar Barboza

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Daegu Sports Court is a proposal for a multipurpose athletic facility in the city of Daegu, South Korea, responding to an international competition launched as part of the 2014 Daegu Architecture Culture Biennale in the summer of 2014.

Located at a sloped site in the industrial outskirts of the city, the program called for a space to foster community and team spirit: a democratic arena to welcome citizens, athletes, and visitors. The project brief provided a site with an existing sports facility in poor condition and called for the design of a new building to replace the current structure, taking into account issues of scale, context, accessibility, and a limited budget. The project is sited at the intersection of two main arteries, connected to the north by a new drive for cultural and athletic development.

industrial fringes of the city: an area dotted with large, unpretentious warehouses optimized for circulation of people, goods, and vehicles. The requirement of a large clear space immediately drew the architects’ attention to an internalized scheme, requiring engagement with a clear and simple way of organizing the program while maximizing efficiency, circulation, and contrasts. Furthermore, the sloped landscape required a solution to the issue of accessibility at the top and bottom of the sloped site. This was addressed by softening the landscape, locating entrances on the eastern and western ends of the site, and placing elevator facilities and points of egress directly adjacent to the car park and drop-off zone.

The scheme responds to the brief by looking at the immediate urban context. The simplicity and proportion of the development area responds to the immediate surroundings – the

Architects Mauricio Vieto Perez London, United Kingdom Natalie Kwee Singapore Caio Caesar Barboza Somerville, USA

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Activity surface area indoors • 1,203 m² • Multipurpose hall (with 10 badminton courts), lounge & cafeteria, spectator seating, 2 multipurpose areas, stage, locker rooms, office and conference rooms Activity surface area outdoors • 1,230 m² • Existing shrine and adjacent gardens square metres.

In terms of spatial configuration, the design draws from the organization of the Korean courtyard house, seeking to resonate with local tradition in the region. Akin to a courtyard, the main sports hall is at the centre of the composition and is conceived as a public arena for all members of the community.

Innovative features • The building uses a material palette reminiscent of traditional Korean constructions • The facade features operable wooden louvers that function similar to a Korean fan

Barrier-free accessibility and universal design features • In spite of being Iocated on a steep sloped site, the sports hall provides generous access • Two lift cores are provided to ensure full accessibility to all levels, allowing disabled visitors to enter the facilities directly from the dropoff zone in the car park

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BRONZE “Daegu Sports Court impressed the jury with its underlying clarity and consistency. Both the external appearance and the manner in which the interior areas have materialised reveal the project initiators’ sophisticated sense of architectural design.

In contrast to the good approaches reflected in the building, the layout of the adjacent outside areas and the positioning of the building in relation to the topography leave some questions unanswered like access to the court and the connecting points between the downward sloping topography and the building itself.”

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Partly sunken below ground level, the activities taking place in the main hall are visible to all other adjacent spaces: two multipurpose community halls, an open cafeteria and a member’s lounge. All ancillary programmes, including fitting room facilities, bleachers, office space, storage, and maintenance areas are located on the periphery of the main court.

The design respects the most recent accessibility codes in South Korea, providing ample circulation spaces on all levels, ­allowing for barrier-free access from the two ends of the sloped site, and providing generous drop-off zones and handicapped parking spaces immediately adjacent to the building. The design seeks to go even further by suggesting the construction of a pedestrian bridge to connect the new building with a new area currently under development, across the highway on the north end of the site.

Nested on the edge of the city, Daegu Sports Court is both a gateway to and a symbolic facility for the community.

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Urban Park Athens Greece

Taroudaki Kallirroi, Antonia Vavanou The athletic and recreational park is located in the heart of Athens’ city centre in an undeveloped area, and is utilized by diverse users who are scattered over the city. Although it is a common area, it is used by individual user groups without a single identity. The design aim is thus to create a point of reference for residents of all ages and groups, including disabled people, and to bring athletic spirit back to the area.

The athletic and recreational park tries to bring people closer to sports from an early age, so that an athletic spirit is created and maintained. In Greece, the climate allows sports to be played outdoors, and therefore the architects sought to link sports to nature, allowing people to experience sports as part of their everyday lives in their city, including access for all citizens, regardless of physical abilities.

The plot is 2,100 square meters. It is located between a main road of Athens, Alexandras Avenue, and the Lykabet-

Architects Taroudaki Kallirroi Athens, Greece Antonia Vavanou Athens, Greece

Activity surface area indoors • 1,360 m² • Electronic library, classrooms for dance and yoga, amphitheatre, rest area, restaurant

IOC/IPC/IAKS Architecture and Design Award for Students and Young Professionals 2015 tus Hill, a hill full of vegetation and trees, which means that it connects the city with nature. Furthermore, it connects a densely populated residential area to an area with several schools. This urban context provides a unique framework for a park of multiple uses, focusing on athletics and recreation.

The athletic facilities include two basketball courts, two volleyball courts, an outdoor fitness area and a skate park. The recreational facilities include a playground for children, designed to host innovative games, an outdoor amphitheatre, cultivated landscape and a rest area with restaurant. Also, there is a building which could host multiple uses, according to changing needs. It includes an electronic library, some classrooms for dance and yoga lessons, or for lectures on any subject, including sports. Furthermore, there is an amphitheatre that can host events, lectures, presentations etc. and restrooms, including a toilet for the handicapped. Also, there is an underground parking area of 60 parking lots, under the basketball courts.

Innovative features • „Green rooms“, aerial path, outdoor bleachers

Barrier-free accessibility and universal design features • Ground level entrances without stairs • Ramps with appropriate inclination for wheelchairs, elevators on aerial path

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BRONZE “This design proposal for an urban activity park in the heart of Athens develops a multitude of activity spaces in a very compressed and limited area. It offers play and recreational zones for groups of all ages from the neighbourhood. The designers found a very intelligent combination of pathways and small activity zones. Anyone who wants to take a stroll, have a rest, practise ball games or skate and bike will find his or her specific space and the appropriate surface. The designers also took the opportunity of restructuring the area to create new pedestrian links between a school and some residential areas. This will certainly encourage children to engage in physical exercises on their way home from school.�

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Of paramount importance was to offer disabled people the ability to have access to all areas of the park, both athletic and recreational. There are ground level entrances, without stairs and ramps, which are at the appropriate inclination for wheelchairs to have the opportunity to follow the wandering path.

The basketball and volleyball courts, the outdoor fitness area and the skate park have seats for spectators and users, designed in a way that they are incorporated into the landscape. More specific, the seats are made of concrete, dug into the soil with the help of a concrete base. The same design applies to almost all seats of the park, such as the outdoor amphitheatre etc.

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Olympic Stadium Amsterdam The optimal surface for European track and field athletes

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rom 6 to 10 July 2016 Amsterdam‘s venerable Olympic Stadium will be the showcase for the 23rd European Ath­letics Championships. The award of the event to Amsterdam means that it will be held in the Netherlands for the first time.

Around 1,300 athletes from 50 countries will be there for the launch. As this international sports meeting will be held immediately before the Olympic Games in Rio, the programme has been reduced from the usual 47 disciplines to just 42. The marathons and the walking races will not take place.

The running track was given a new synthetic surface from ­Polytan in June 2015 in order to prepare the best possible surface for peak performances by all the other track and field athletes. The premium Polytan PUR coating in brick red – a standard Polytan colour – was chosen. The surface in Amsterdam is 17 mm thick and complies with the requirements of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), making it suitable for international competitions with officially recognised personal bests and records. The first “litmus test“ for the new synthetic surface from Polytan was the national Dutch Ath­ letics Championships in July 2015 – immediately after its installation – and the important “IAAF Class 1“ certification of the stadium. The facility is unusual in that the water jumps for the 84

steeplechasers are on the outside of the running track. This means that more events can be held simultaneously than is normally the case.

Now a listed monument, the stadium was built in the Stadionbuurt district of Amsterdam for the Summer Olympics in 1928. It was designed by the Dutch architect Jan Wils, who was awarded a gold medal for the building in the art competition held as part of the Summer Games. Historically speaking, the stadium belongs to the “Amsterdam School“ of architecture, the famous Dutch classic Modern style, which is also described as Brick Expressionism. The competition arena has a closed brick facade on the outside that looks neither dark nor heavy in spite of its large size. This is down to the varied division of the external envelope – a characteristic feature of this architectural style. In contrast to the facade, the only thing visible inside the stadium is the reinforced concrete frame in the style of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, which was popular at the time. A narrow tower on which the Olympic flame was set alight for the first time marks the main entrance. It was and still is the ground‘s emblem.

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Client Author Pictures Running track

Stichting Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam Polytan GmbH Achim Krug Polytan GmbH, Gewerbering 3, D-86666 Burgheim, Germany info@polytan.com, www.polytan.com

The stadium was heavily used in the decades following the Olympic Games – it was the home ground of the famous football club Ajax Amsterdam for a long time, for instance. It deteriorated visibly during the 1990s, however, until expensive renovations breathed new life into it from 1996 onwards. The stadium was restored as far as possible to its original condition, including the demolition of a grandstand extension dating back to 1937. Numerous sporting and cultural events are held there now, and it is the base of the Amsterdam athletics club “Phanos“.

By opting for the Polytan PUR sports surface, the organisers in Amsterdam decided on a water-impermeable, extremely durable solid synthetic surface consisting of a continuous blend of PUR and elastic rubber granules all the way from the base to the top layer. Polytan employees used the in-situ construction method to install it directly on site. Not only does the solid structure make the surface extremely durable, it also greatly enhances the tread elasticity of athletes and thus their acceleration. The track is significantly faster than conventional multilayered synthetic surfaces. In addition, the top layer of the sports surface is interspersed with EPDM granules, which means that it is suitable for sports shoes with spikes. sb 5/2015

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The AC Landshut speedway stadium Television-Compliant Floodlight for the Landshut Devils Author Pictures

Claudia Rieling OSRAM, www.osram.com, sports-lighting@osram.de

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sram supplied a modern,TV-compliant floodlight system for the One Solar Arena in Landshut, Germany right on time for the European Speedway Championships in July 2015. The system complies with high specifications for vertical illuminance levels for television broadcasting, and creates optimum visual conditions for both motorcyclists and spectators in the One Solar Arena, the speedway stadium of AC Landshut and home to the Landshut Devils.

The opening night of the new, television-compliant floodlight system in the One Solar Arena was a complete success – the luminaires were utilised for the first time in competition conditions during the European Speedway Championships in Landshut and impressed with outstanding levels of light quality. The previous lighting installation consisted of traditional road luminaires, with light cones targeting not only the track but also the peripheral surroundings to a high extent. The old lighting system also emitted sufficient light to safely carry out training and competition, but was unable to meet the high photometric requirements needed with television broadcasts.

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The challenge consisted of upgrading an existing lighting system to a TV-compatible and highly efficient installation without the need for significant structural modifications.

Lighting specifications for television broadcasting are highly demanding. With standard lighting, the light on the racing track is relevant, i.e. on the horizontal plane, but with television broadcasts the level of vertical illuminance must also be sufficiently high, without however causing glare for the participants and spectators.

92 Siteco floodlights now illuminate the Landshut racing track following the modernisation project, and each luminaire mast is equipped with four SiCompact A3 Maxi 2000 W floodlights mounted in fanned configurations. The luminaires are inclined downwards where required to emit light onto the racing track only, avoiding all glare for the spectators and motorcyclists.

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“We aim to offer a customised solution for all projects, which is our method of achieving optimum lighting conditions,“ explained Torsten Onasch, stadium specialist at Siteco.

As a consequence, the requisite level of illuminance directly depends on the type of sport as well as the size and speed of the moving object. “With Speedway, the racers are much larger and sometimes slower than a basketball or cricket ball for example – this means we need less light here, which also translates into lower energy consumption,“ Onasch emphasised. Siteco carried out a lighting calculation for AC Landshut and supplied a plan to the on-site installers with precise setting coordinates for the racing track. The lighting calculation is needed for calculating the levels of illuminance in the direction of the various cameras and to ensure homogeneous illumination.

events is much more extensive. “We‘ve now been equipping the largest sports arenas in the world with optimum lighting for decades,“ stated Dr. Eladia Pulido, Head of the Osram Lighting Solutions business division. “As a complete solution provider, we illuminate everything from a single source, ranging from car parks and stadium facades to entrance zones, interiors and playing fields.“ This is highlighted with various current reference projects, for example the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao (Spain), the ­Melbourne Cricket Ground (Australia) and a host of stadiums for major football events. During the major football event in Brazil in 2014 for example, seven of the twelve stadiums were equipped with Osram lighting technology.

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Game, set and match Laying of sports flooring Author

STAUF Klebstoffwerk GmbH, Oberhausener Straße 1, 57234 Wilnsdorf, Germany, www.stauf.de

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ienna boasts Europe’s largest indoor tennis hall: 13 tennis and four badminton courts, all on a single site, are available to enthusiasts of racket sports. Renovating the surfaces of facilities of this scale is a mammoth task. Professionals are required here – amateurs are out of their depth.

The Sportbau HL specialists, hailing from Gunskirchen in Upper Austria, have laid an impressive 8000 square metres of carpeting in this hall built in 1985. This XXL project was completed in just under two months, from early in July to the end of August 2015. This match against time with STAUF finally ended in game, set and match for STAUF. It is a sweltering early midsummer afternoon. The sun is beating down through the skylights and onto the tennis courts: the hall inside is only slightly cooler than outside. The thermometer reads 36 degrees. The five Sportbau HL floorers are already sweating, and some of them have rid themselves of their T-shirts and are working bare-chested. The site radio is blaring pop music – right now it is Uncle Kracker’s “Follow me”. “Turn up the volume!” shout two workers busy sanding the filler in a corner of the hall. Music tends to speed up the progress.

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The floorers have put in some hours of preparatory work already.

The old flooring had to be ripped out and the floor sanded down. Completely new flooring was required – not a shred of the old floor covering must remain. The experts opted specifically for STAUF D 54 for floor undercoating. The adhesion and priming concentrate has very high coverage and is quick-drying – important properties for such large areas and tight schedules. D 54 also contains no solvents and has very low-emissions – another important factor here, considering that the floorers will spend many working hours in the closed hall.

The pallet of SP TEXTILE dispersion adhesive is waiting at the centre of the hall, ready for use. Large rolls of green needlepunched nonwoven and the roller are ready nearby – the floorers will need these later to ensure that the sports flooring is securely glued down full-faced. Whilst the filler is still being sanded down in a corner, – roughly 30 square metres needed touching up with the durable filling and repair compound STAUF RM – two Sportbau HL staff have already started installation in the centre of the hall: the green nonwoven flooring is securely glued down with STAUF SP TEXTILE. This dispersb 5/2015

sion adhesive is particularly suited for textile sports flooring.

It has been developed for a long service life, especially under high stress; with the hard adhesive groove also reducing seam shrinkage. “Apart from this, SP TEXTILE will strongly adhere right from the start, to make laying easier”, explains floorer Siegmund Zotter, taking a big gulp from his water bottle before continuing.

Voices are coming from a few courts away, with every now and then the thunk of a hard serve – business is continuing as usual, since not all the courts are being renovated simultaneously. The floorers from Gunskirchen are not distracted at all.

One of them is busy recessing the needle fleece on an almost completed court, to mark the court: the nonwoven for the white lines, which the tennis players will of course need for orientation, is ready and waiting – on rolls. They will later be cut using a dual blade knife, before gluing them into place. Yet a lot of sweat is sure to be shed until all the courts are renovated. But on completion of renovation, one thing is certain: great tennis. And with STAUF as the reliable partner, the floorers from Upper Austria will have their eyes on the ball. sb 5/2015

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The joy of the game

Hybrid turf is the new ideal sports surface for leisure sport Author Pictures Contact

Peter Kappes MOZ/ Jörn Tormow EUROGREEN GmbH, Industriestrasse 83-85, D-57518 Betzdorf, Germany, info@eurogreen.de, www.eurogreen.de

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f the ball is to run true, you need a level playing field. And the type of sports surface also plays an important part.

Few people today want to play any more on cinder or sand pitches that used to be standard for leisure football.

Natural, fresh and well-tended turf is therefore consider­ed essential for football sports surfaces. The feel of playing on turf is unmatched and far superior to that associated with unpopular cinder surfaces. However, over-use and bad weather can quickly bring a natural turf pitch to its knees.

With its CombiGrass® hybrid turf, EUROGREEN has the ­perfect solution. The system combines the durability of ­artificial turf with the regenerative capacity of natural turf to yield a new, ideal sportsground surface for leisure use. ­Existing cinder grounds lend themselves well to conversion into modern hybrid turf pitches that rekindle the joy of the game – an exciting alternative economically and environmentally.

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The new “Ready to Build” concept

EuroBasket 2015

The range of Melos granules and matching polyurethanes of various qualities has grown immensely through constant product innovation in recent years. And their application has not been limited to sports facility construction, for even architects and urban planners have discovered coloured and highly resilient Melos products, e.g. for architectural surfaces in urban environments.

The wide range of applications is opening up opportunities for processing companies, but combinations of granules and system components are becoming increasingly complex at the same time.

The Melos GmbH team has already supported countless exciting projects for play, sports and architectural applications and now intends to improve planning security and reliability.

The Connor Sports’ brand was chosen again by FIBA for EuroBasket 2015, held from 5th to 20th September 2015. This selection was based on the brand’s international experience and its industry-leading hardwood courts, most recently on display as the Official Court for the 2014 FIBA World Championship played at six venues in Spain. “Connor Sports is extremely proud to be a partner to EuroBasket 2015 and we believe the participating nations, the organisers and players will benefit from the unified look, premium performance and safety built into these five custom Quick Lock™ courts.”

The “Ready to Build” performance and service strategy enables processing companies to stay abreast of products, systems and applications and provide customers with even more targeted advice on design options, prices, etc. When ordering via Ready to Build, processing companies obtain the required products from the plant network. Depending on the application, ready-to-use granules, polyurethanes or artificial landscaping turfs are supplied to the site quickly. Melos supports the process of advising customers with practical services.

At the www.readytobuild.de website, processing companies can configure products and request prices or sales support, including samples obtained with just a few mouseclicks. The website supports planning, makes project calculations easier, realistically simulates colours and is used as a product catalogue in customer consultations or during the preparation phase. Melos will be offering the whole range of modern live communication at FSB in Cologne from 27 to 30 October (Hall 10.2, Stand F040 / G041) on 150 m². The “Melos experience” will come to life for visitors with innovations, the new Ready to Build performance and service concept, and many interactive features.

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“The organisers have set the highest standards for this year’s EuroBasket, incorporating the latest innovations and taking the competition in a number of exciting new directions. The players on the court will feel the special performance and safety features built into the portable Connor Quick Lock™ courts,” explained Connor Sport Court International Vice-President Andrew Gettig. “One of the attractive things from the last Basketball World Championships was the perfect aesthetic of the surface,” said Kamil Novak, Director of FIBA Europe.

For the first time in history, EuroBasket will be held in 4 countries and 5 different cities (Berlin, Zagreb, Riga, Montpellier and Lille). All the finals will take place in Lille. This has given Connor Sports the opportunity to design 5 customised surfaces. Pierre Lienhard, Director of Gerflor Sports Flooring, said he was “very proud that Connor floors will supply ‘EuroBasket 2015’ and that all players will enjoy a premium surface, customised for each of the arenas.” Connor Sport Court International joined the Gerflor Group in 2014. This move brings together three world-class sports brands – Connor Sports®, Sport Court® and Taraflex™ – under the same flagship and strengthens Gerflor’s position as a world leader in sports surfaces.

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40th Anniversary of SMG

MGSU, Russia

SMG is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The company in Bavaria, Germany, is considered a pioneer of synthetic sports surfaces and in several other areas: Since the 70s in the installation of athletic tracks, since the 80s in the installation and maintenance of artificial turf, since the 90s in the paving of industrial flooring and since 2014 also in the removal and reclamation of artificial turf.

The Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU) was established in 1921. Before 1993 it was known as Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering. It is one of the oldest technical institutes of higher education and a leading civil engineering institute in Russia.

Today the company offers by far the largest product range for machines for maintaining and cleaning artificial turf pitches across the world – a total of 14 machines and attachments. For this area, SMG has developed new standards on the basis of long-term experience, providing users not only with valuable information for handling, but also giving guidance in choosing the right product to do the best possible job.

SMG therefore no longer uses the vague term of general cleaning and care any more. The company now distinguishes between routine and advanced maintenance of the surfaces.

Regular routine maintenance is necessary after ten hours of play and requires one hour of weekly cleaning. Special advanced maintenance of the surfaces is required once or twice a year.

Regular routine maintenance includes: - Inspection of lines - Surface cleaning - Levelling and uniform spreading of infill - Brushing fibers

The university comprises 10 faculties and more than 50 departments, enabling students to do research and studies in the areas of design and construction. At the moment, there are more than 18,000 students enrolled at the university.

The university contains a newly constructed, modern indoor athletics hall, which is currently the second-biggest indoor sports complex in this vein in Moscow. Equipped with running tracks and multipurpose flooring areas, the venue is designed to host major national and international athletics competitions.

CONICA has been awarded the job to supply polyurethane-based sports flooring products and systems for this outstanding project.

Altogether over 5,600 m² has been installed: For the track, the IAAF certified sandwich system CONIPUR SW was chosen with an overall area of 3,460 m². In addition, the two-layer EPDM system CONIPUR 2S was implemented in the run-off and warmup areas.

Next to the running track area, a multipurpose field with a total area of 1,174 m² is located. In co-operation with the people in charge, a decision has been taken in favour of the area-elastic indoor sports flooring system CONIPUR AE, which is distinguished by its high functionality and protective function.

All these tasks can be done by SMG equipment with grounddriven rotating brushes: TurfScout TS1400, TurfCare TCA 1400, TurfBoy TB1, and CareMax CM1.

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Baku Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan

Rigour and lightness

For the first ever European Games in Baku from 12 to 28 June 2015, the South Korean firm Heerim Architects designed an impressive sports arena. The new Olympic Stadium was designed as a multifunctional sports facility for approximately 69,000 visitors and offers excellent line-of-sight for both athletics and football events. The success of this six-storey building with a total height of 60 m is attributable to exemplary collaboration within the international team. The stunning façade and roof cladding were awarded to Vector Foiltec, the world’s biggest ETFE specialist.

“Aachen is the beating heart of equestrianism.“ These were the words chosen by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel to encapsulate the importance of the CHIO, the Concours Hippique International Officiel. To keep pace with constantly growing interest, Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein (ALRV), which runs the facility, decided to extend the dressage stadium by adding a 1200-seat spectator stand.

Vector Foiltec designed, manufactured and installed 600 rhomboidal and 360 trapezoidal Texlon® ETFE-sheet pneumatic cushion elements covering approximately 62,000 m². This multi-functional cladding protects the stadium and its spectators from rain, solar radiation and wind. By using integrated LEDs, the building envelope can be illuminated to suit the requirements of the event and can be used to increase the anticipation of the approaching crowds – the stadium is a visible landmark by day and by night.

Vector Foiltec was asked to bring its specific expertise to the table. The architect’s original design idea sought to use a single membrane for the roof, but the local prevailing high wind loads posed a huge problem. Vector Foiltec devised a robust roof design consisting of a two layer of ETFE cushion, which proved more resistant to the local climatic influences. An additional advantage of this system was its ability to control the amount of solar radiation entering the building by means of special printing techniques. In this case, the underside of the upper foil layer of the roof has been printed in order to reflect the sun’s rays.

This white ETFE film gives the stadium façade an attractive and modern appearance. Vector Foiltec installed stainless steel cables that helped to stabilise the structure against wind loads and to optimise the secondary support structure - creating the most efficient engineering solution.

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It organised an architecture competition, which was won by celebrated Aachen architects kadawittfeld. Combining formal austerity with visual levity, the design can be interpreted as an allusion to dressage.

This effect is accentuated by a roof that seems to float above everything. The key to achieving this effect is the underside of the roof, the part visible to the observer, which consists essentially of a panel ceiling from Nagelstutz und Eichler in dazzling Dolomite White.

The metal ceiling consists of 184 mm wide aluminium panels with deeply recessed, masked joints. To achieve extra safety, the panels were bolted onto the carrying rails. This creates a longitudinally oriented structure that gives the roof strength and an air of lightness at the same time.

The weather-exposed position of the surface posed further challenges for the non-ferrous panels. Despite being protected on three sides, the ceiling constitutes a considerable wind-exposed surface. Since it is angled upwards, the structure also has to be able to defy rain, snow and hail. The calculations for a structure strong enough to withstand wind and storm were performed together with structural engineers. Resistance to all other weathering risks is provided by panels‘ own product properties.

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INDEX AQUATIC CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT

DISPLAY AND SIGNAGE SYSTEMS

Benz ....................................96 Berndorf .............................. 97 Eurotramp ...........................98 hinke ...................................99 ISS .......................................99 Kernig ................................ 99 Serge Ferrari ......................102 SPORT-THIEME .................. 102

ENGO ..................................98 Signgrass ........................... 102

ARTIFICIAL TURF POLYTAN ........................... 101 Porplastic ........................... 101 Signgrass ........................... 102 Stargum............................. 102 STRABAG .......................... 102 Trofil .................................. 102 Wiedenmann ..................... 103

CEILINGS, WINDOWS, WALLS CCSC ................................... 97 ISP .......................................99 IST .......................................99 Nagelstutz und Eichler ....... 100 Serge Ferrari. .....................102 Vector Foiltec. .................... 103

DRAINAGE, ATHLETIC TRACK BORDERS ACO ....................................96 ANRIN .................................96 Conradi + Kaiser ................. 97 Hauraton .............................99 Labarre .............................. 100

ELASTIC LAYERS, PROTECTING SURFACES BSW .................................... 97 Conradi + Kaiser ................. 97 KRAIBURG ...........................99 Kutter ..................................99 Melos ................................ 100 Polytan .............................. 101 Porplastic ........................... 101 Sekisui Alveo .....................102 Stargum............................. 102 Trofil .................................. 102

GOLF COURSE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT CHANGING UNITS, CLOTHES LOCKERS Benz ....................................96 eccos pro .............................98 Neptunus ........................... 100 Universal Sport .................. 102 Züko .................................. 103

CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE heiler ...................................99 Hörger .................................99 INTERGREEN ........................99 Kutter .................................99 Labarre .............................. 100 POLYTAN ........................... 101 Porplastic ........................... 101 SMG .................................. 102 STRABAG .......................... 102 Trofil .................................. 102 Wiedenmann ..................... 103 94 94

BSW .................................... 97 Conradi + Kaiser ................. 97 KRAIBURG ...........................99 Kutter ..................................99 Labarre .............................. 100 Novoter............................ 100 Signgrass ........................... 102 Wiedenmann ..................... 103

ICE RESURFACERS ENGO ..................................98 Ice-World Ice-Business ........ 99 Züko .................................. 103

ICE SPORTS EQUIPMENT

LIGHTING

AST .....................................96 ENGO ..................................98 GfKK ...................................98 Ice-World Ice-Business ........ 99 ISS .......................................99 Universal Sport .................. 102 Züko .................................. 103

Aerolux ................................96 heiler ...................................99 INTERGREEN ........................99 Kutter ..................................99 LEDeXCHANGE.................. 100 OSRAM ............................. 100 STRABAG .......................... 102 Vector Foiltec. .................... 103

INDOOR EQUIPMENT ASB .....................................96 Benz ....................................96 BFGW .................................. 97 Eiden & Wagner...................98 Eurotramp ...........................98 Gütegemeinschaft ...............98 SPORT-THIEME .................. 102 Weinberger ....................... 103

INDOOR SPORTS FLOORING ASB .....................................96 BSW .................................... 97 Conica ................................. 97 Descol ................................. 97 DLW Flooring ....................... 97 Forbo...................................98 Gerflor.................................98 Hamberger ..........................99 ISP .......................................99 ISS .......................................99 IST .......................................99 KRAIBURG ...........................99 Polytan .............................. 101 Porplastic ........................... 101 Sekisui Alveo .....................102 Stargum............................. 102 Trofil .................................. 102 Weinberger ....................... 103

MOBILE FLOORINGS, COVER SYSTEMS BSW .................................... 97 Conradi + Kaiser ................. 97 ENGO ..................................98 Gerflor.................................98 Hamberger ..........................99 Holz-Speckmann ..................99 Ice-World Ice-Business ........ 99 Trofil .................................. 102 Universal Sport .................. 102

MULTI-SPORTS COURTS DSGN concepts.................... 97 Eiden & Wagner...................98 McArena ........................... 100 Sekisui Alveo .....................102 Signgrass ........................... 102 Stargum............................. 102

NATURAL TURF heiler ...................................99 INTERGREEN ........................99 Kutter ..................................99 Novoter............................ 100 Signgrass ........................... 102 STRABAG .......................... 102 Wiedenmann ..................... 103

IRRIGATION heiler ...................................99 INTERGREEN ........................99 Kutter ..................................99 PERROT.............................. 101 STRABAG .......................... 102

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AST .................................... 96 BSW .................................. 97 Conica ............................... 97 Hamberger ......................... 99 ISS ..................................... 99 IST ..................................... 99 KRAIBURG ......................... 99 McArena .......................... 100 Melos .............................. 100 Polytan ............................ 101 Porplastic ......................... 101 Sekisui Alveo .................... 102 Signgrass ......................... 102 Stargum ........................... 102 Trofil ................................ 102 Weinberger ...................... 103

Berndorf ............................ 97 hinke ................................. 99 Zeller ............................... 103

Benz .................................. 96 CCSC ................................. 97 Eiden & Wagner...................98 Eurotramp .......................... 98 Gütegemeinschaft .............. 98 INTERGREEN ...................... 99 LAPPSET ........................... 100 SPORT-THIEME ................. 102 STRABAG ......................... 102 Universal Sport ................. 102

PERIMETER BOARDS, NETTING AST .................................... 96 ENGO ................................ 98 ISS ..................................... 99 Universal Sport ................. 102

PLANNING AND DESIGN ArenaProjekt ...................... 96 Brinkmann + Deppen ......... 97 Calles - De Brabant............. 97 DSGN concepts.................... 97 geo3 .................................. 98 Kernig ................................ 99 M3 Architectes ................. 100 Pätzold + Snowadsky ....... 101 Planungsbüro Deyle .......... 101 RAUMKUNST ................... 101 STRABAG ......................... 102

REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS, ICE RINKS AST .................................... 96 ENGO ................................ 98 GfKK ................................. 98 Ice-World Ice-Business ........ 99 ISS ..................................... 99 Novoter............................ 100 Züko ................................ 103

ROOFING SYSTEMS CENO TEC .......................... 97 McArena .......................... 100 PM Engineering ................ 101 Serge Ferrari..................... 102 Vector Foiltec. .................... 103 waagner biro.................... 103

SANITARY, HEATING, AIR CONDITIONING, ENERGY RECOVERY GfKK ................................. 98 ISS ..................................... 99 Kernig ................................ 99 Novoter............................ 100 SEW ................................. 102

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POOL CONSTRUCTION, CERAMICS Agrob Buchtal .................... 96 SOUND SYSTEMS BOSE ................................. 97

DLW Flooring ....................... 97

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ACO .................................. 96 ANRIN ................................ 96 CCSC ................................. 97 Conradi + Kaiser ............... 97 Hauraton ........................... 99 heiler ................................. 99 INTERGREEN ...................... 99 ISP ..................................... 99 IST ..................................... 99 Kernig ................................ 99 Kutter ................................ 99 Labarre ............................ 100 Melos .............................. 100 Novoter............................ 100 Polytan ............................ 101 Porplastic ......................... 101 Signgrass ......................... 102 SMG ................................ 102 STRABAG ......................... 102

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Benz .................................. 96 INTERGREEN ...................... 99

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ANRIN ................................ 96 Benz .................................. 96 Eiden & Wagner...................98 Gütegemeinschaft .............. 98 INTERGREEN ...................... 99 ISS ..................................... 99 Novoter............................ 100 Polytan ............................ 101 Porplastic ......................... 101 Serge Ferrari..................... 102 Signgrass ......................... 102 SMG ................................ 102 SPORT-THIEME ................. 102 STRABAG ......................... 102 Universal Sport ................. 102 Wiedenmann ................... 103

SPORTS HALL DIVIDERS waagner biro.................... 103

STANDS, SEATING ENGO ................................ 98 INTERGREEN ...................... 99 Nüssli ............................... 100 waagner biro.................... 103 Weinberger ...................... 103

TEMPORARY, LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES Neptunus ......................... 100 PM Engineering ................ 101 Vector Foiltec. .................... 103

TESTING, QUALITY ASSURANCE BFGW ................................ 97 DSGN concepts.................... 97 Gütegemeinschaft .............. 98 ISP ..................................... 99 IST ..................................... 99

TICKETING, ACCESS SYSTEMS eccos pro ........................... 98

TURNKEY CONSTRUCTION hinke ................................. 99 McArena .......................... 100 Neptunus ......................... 100 Nüssli ............................... 100 Pellikaan .......................... 100 Vector Foiltec. .................... 103

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ACO Severin Ahlmann GmbH & Co. KG Postfach 320 24755 Rendsburg, Germany Phone +49(0)4331 354600 info@aco-online.de www.aco.com

ACO SPORT® includes drainage systems and components for sport, play and leisure facilities. They ensure that water is rapidly drained so that the sporting facilities can be used throughout the year safely and securely.

AEROLUX INTERNATIONAL B.V. P.O. Box 48 7570 AA Oldenzaal, Netherlands Phone +31(0)541 570357 info@aerolux.com www.aerolux.com

Aerolux International BV is an international company in sports and large area lighting. Aerolux develops and produces its own high efficiency floodlights from aluminum.

During more than 25 years of experience in lighting we have become a leading company in supplying lighting installations for all kinds of sports and industrial areas.

AGROB BUCHTAL Deutsche Steinzeug Keramik GmbH Buchtal 1 92521 Schwarzenfeld, Germany Phone +49(0)9435 3910 agrob-buchtal@deutsche-steinzeug.de www.agrob-buchtal.de

Deutsche Steinzeug Group is focused on its core competences in the business field of ceramic covering materials (wall and floor tiles, swimming baths and facades). Their products, which are predominantly manufactured at locations in Germany, make them distinct from their competitors. They have a comprehensive range as well as a depth of expertise in various project areas together with a targeted consultancy service.

ANRIN GmbH Siemensstraße 1 59609 Anröchte, Germany Phone +49(0)2947 97810 info@anrin.com www.anrin.com

ANRIN – a company from Germany, addresses the subject of drainage techniques innovatively and competently. Millions of manufactured and laid ANRIN drainage channels bear testimony of the experience on which specifi ers, dealers and contractors can rely.

Repeatedly new, creative developments and improvements to the channel systems and gratings as well as in the interlocking and jointing techniques underscore the company‘s know-how in drainage technology.

ArenaProjekt i Sverige AB Box 300 14 200 61 Limhamn, Sweden Phone +46(0)40 6271380 info@arenaprojekt.com www.arenaprojekt.com

ArenaProjekt create the necessary conditions for the planning and construction of the arena or stadium by providing services like programming, feasibility studies, concept design, preliminary design, cost estimations, event customisation and quality insurance, ArenaProjekt are then involved throughout the feasibility study and design process, providing assistance to meet with all clients and stakeholders’ requirements, ensuring correct logistics, proper planning and the right technical requirements. All this in order to create the most well-planned and cost-effective arena possible.

ASB SquashCourts Systembau Horst Babinsky GmbH Fabrikstraße 14 83371 Stein, Germany Phone +49(0)8621 98740 babinsky@asbsquash.com www.asbsquash.com

ASB provide professional solutions to their customers’ requirements and guarantee that their range of products will enhance the sporting experience of the athletes concerned and also develop business potential for their clients. ASB aim to promote their wide range of high-quality products and innovations to the world squash market. ASB assure their customers that all ASB products are created using the latest technology and available knowledge.

ASPG Deutschland GmbH Fährstraße 36 40221 Düsseldorf, Germany Phone +49(0)211 30329720 info@D-aspg.de www.D-aspg.de

Artificial turf, indoor sports floorings, mobile floorings, cover systems

AST Eissport und Solaranlagenbau GmbH Lechhalde 1 1/2 87629 Füssen, Germany Phone +49(0)8362 909190 hannes.schretter@ast.at www.ast.at

AST Eis- & Solartechnik GmbH is a company of the group “Elektrizitätswerke Reutte AG” (Electric company) with headquarters in Reutte/Tyrol and since 1986 supplies communities, cities, event organizations, public swimming pools as well as customers from various other branches with solar units and ice rinks.

Gotthilf Benz Turngerätefabrik GmbH+Co KG Postfach 220 71350 Winnenden, Germany Phone +49(0)7195 69050 info@benz-sport.de www.benz-sport.de

BENZ manufactures high-quality sports equipment in Winnenden, Swabia, and backs up these innovative products with an outstanding selection of aftermarket items. The company’s philosophy, which is also the aspiration of its employees, is “Quality is our discipline”. Putting this into practice in its daily work and all coming projects is a challenge that BENZ is happy to accept.

BERNDORF Metall- und Bäderbau GmbH Leobersdorfer Strasse 26 2560 Berndorf, Austria Phone +43(0)2672 836400 office@berndorf-baederbau.com www.berndorf-baederbau.com

Berndorf Bäderbau has been a leading manufacturer of stainless steel swimming pools since 1960. Berndorf Bäderbau has built over 6.500 swimming pools throughout Europe in a wide variety of sizes and shapes. Thanks to its outstanding technical and optical characteristics, stainless steel is the ideal material for constructing commercial and municipal swimming pools. More and more private customers and hotel owners 5/2015 have become aware of the benefits of stainless steel pools in recentsbyears.

Since its founding in 1984, the BFGW has been an association devoted entirely to safety in the operation of sports, play and leisure facilities. Its work is based on the specifications of the relevant DIN/EN standards, the guidelines of the GUV accident insurance institutions, and the German Equipment and Product Safety Act (GPSG).

BFGW Bundesfachgruppe Wartung – Sicherheit für Sport- und Spielgeräte e.V. Waldstraße 9 51145 Köln, Germany Phone +49(0)2203 301001 info@bfgw.de www.bfgw.de

Wherever quality sound is important, Bose® is there. From home entertainment speakers and systems, to Wave® music systems, premium automotive music systems, noise reduction headphones for consumers and pilots and sound for public spaces. Bose®´s approach to designing speakers and music systems is based on the belief that audio products exist to provide lifelike music for everyone, everywhere, and that music – not equipment – is the ultimate benefit.

BOSE GmbH Max-Planck-Straße 36b 61381 Friedrichsdorf, Germany Phone +49(0)6172 71040 www.bose.de

Since 1991, Brinkmann + Deppen, an engineering office for sports and outdoor facilities in Sassenberg, has been a byword for top-level expertise in all areas of sports facility and stadium construction, building construction, and the design of parks and open spaces. We are the ideal contact throughout Germany and across Europe for design and project management in the fields of sports facility and stadium construction, parks and open spaces, building construction and expert opinions.

Brinkmann + Deppen Architect / Landscape architect Lappenbrink 35 48336 Sassenberg, Germany Phone +49(0)2583 2172 info@brinkmann-deppen.de www.brinkmann-deppen.de

BSW is one of the leading suppliers of products made of polyurethane-bound rubber granulate. Using their material Regupol®, BSW produces numerous elastic, protective and absorbing products for a variety of applications. The BSW product range focuses on the production of elastic sports floorings, insulation products and foams. BSW produces the world famous judo mats, BSW Tatami, other sports mats and customised moulded parts in compound foams.

BSW Berleburger Schaumstoffwerk GmbH Am Hilgenacker 24 57301 Bad Berleburg, Germany Phone +49(0)2751 8030 info@berleburger.com www.berleburger.com

Calles ° De Brabant delivers the quality and service that you expect. Customers’ changing requirements have stimulated the company’s on-going development. By working together with Calles ° De Brabant, you benefit from the industry’s latest services, technologies and breakthroughs.

Calles - De Brabant Landscape architects Friedhofsweg 21 50259 Pulheim-Brauweiler, Germany Phone +49(0)2234 433220 mail@cdeb.de www.cdeb.de

Chongqing Geckoking Sports Science and Technology Co., Ltd., is a holding subsidiary of Chongqing China Sports Construction and Engineering Co., Ltd. (CCSC). It is a professional enterprise, dealing with the manufacturing, supplying, and construction of climbing facilities, and marketing. The company specializes in over 300 various climbing venues and climbing competition walls at home and abroad. Since the installation of its first climbing wall in 1999, the company has been contracted to build and supply it’s panels, holds and expertise to some 15 countries and areas.

CCSC Chongqing China Sports Construction Engineering Co.,Ltd Rm503 Longhu Crystal Int‘l,No164 Xinnan Rd,Yubei District 401147 Chongqing, China Phone +86(0)23 67882585 www.geckokingclimbing.com

For more than three decades CENO TEC classes among the leading companies in the textile architecture sector realising ambitious membrane structures around the world.

Architecture membranes made of high-strength, coated polyester or glass fabrics and ETFE foils are ideal building materials when it comes to the realisation of highly stressresistant and at the same time filigree roof and facade structures in connection with bearing structures consisting of steel and steel ropes. CENO membranes signify individually designed and light rooms, bathed in light.

CENO Membrane Technology GmbH Am Eggenkamp 14 48268 Greven, Germany Phone +49(0)2571 9690 info@ceno-tec.de www.ceno-tec.de

Conica AG from Schaffhausen in Switzerland is a global market leader for the construction of synthetic sports surfaces in all climatic conditions. Every year, more than 250 tracks are installed worldwide onto a surface of two square kilometers. CONIPUR and CONICA sports surfaces are highly regarded throughout the world. The innovative product portfolio includes intelligent system solutions for running tracks, multipurpose facilities, sports halls and indoor athletic facilities.

Conica AG Industriestraße 26 8207 Schaffhausen, Switzerland Phone +41(0)52 644 36 00 info@conica.com www.conica.com

Conradi+Kaiser is the leading manufacturer of recycled rubber flooring systems and stainless steel equipment to design public sports fields. C+K flooring systems are installed on many remarkable outdoor sports projects all over the world. Highest quality standards are achieved due to the insourcing of the various production processes at the company’s facility in Kleinmaischeid. Our team is supporting international distributors by providing reliable information based on huge know-how and long-lasting experience.

Conradi+Kaiser GmbH Gewerbegebiet Larsheck 56271 Kleinmaischeid, Germany Phone +49(0)2689 9580-0 info@conradi-kaiser.de www.conradi-kaiser.de

Whether a sports hall, gym or multipurpose hall, we have a suitable sports floor for you, made from special sports linoleum. Why is it special? Simply because a proper sports floor system has to live up to its potential in terms of maximum support for any kind of movement of the user, whether general fitness activities, school sports or sport played at competition level.

DLW Flooring GmbH Stuttgarter Straße 75 74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany Phone +49(0)7142 71-0 info@dlwsports.com www.dlwsports.com

DSGN concepts conceptualises and designs urban movement space. They understand public space as a stage for the creation of new lifestyle- and motion cultures. Their claim is it to develop unique sites with a maximum of function in addition to an individual design. Because of their long lasting connection to the skateboard culture and parkour scene they have an insight regarding the users’ needs, and know how to translate these into a design from materiality to different shapes.

DSGN concepts UG Hafenweg 31 48155 Münster, Germany Phone +49 251 961915-73 info@dsgn-concepts.de www.dsgn-concepts.de

eccos pro are the experts for integrated admission and payment systems in hotel and recreational facilities. eccos pro develops networked system solutions from hardware and software. As a full-service provider, eccos pro offers complete solutions from one source, ranging from financing and implementation consultation through to after sales support. sb 5/2015

eccos pro gmbh electronic control and cash organisation systems Nevigeser Str. 100 42553 Velbert, Germany Phone +49(0)2051 2086200 info@eccos-pro.com www.eccos-pro.com

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Eiden & Wagner Metallbau GmbH Robert-Bosch-Str. 4 54634 Bitburg, Germany Phone +49(0)6561 947 080 metallbau@eiden-wagner.de www.eiden-wagner.de

TURNBAR®, die Marke für hochwertige Sport- und Freizeitgeräte aus Metall ist ein Produkt der Eiden & Wagner Metallbau GmbH. Sie ist ein Beispiel unserer Kompetenzen in Bezug auf Gestaltung, Planung und Ausführung.

ENGO GmbH Srl Handwerkerzone Nr. 7 39030 Terenten (BZ), Italy Phone +39(0)472 546157 info@engo.it www.engo.it

ENGO produces for more than 30 years boards for various types of sports plants: from light-structured boards for inline and public skating to professional boards for ice hockey in fibreglass. ENGO also has been designing and producing ice-preparation machines (ice resurfacer) for rinks of any size and use for more than 30 years, and for over 20 years electrical ice-preparation machines.

Eurotramp - Kurt Hack GmbH Postfach 1146 Zeller Straße 17/1 73235 Weilheim / Teck, Germany Phone +49(0)7023 94950 eurotramp@eurotramp.com www.eurotramp.com

Eurotramp is a worldwide leading company specialized on building trampolines with more than 50 years of experience. We produce high quality products for professional competitions as well as leisure time and outdoor products. Our high quality standard as well as the ambition to innovation, best possible customer relationship and excellent reliability are mirroring in every single Eurotramp trampoline. Not for nothing top athletes all over the world do trust in our trampolines and our service every single day.

Forbo Flooring GmbH Steubenstraße 27 33100 Paderborn, Germany Phone +49(0)5251 1803166 info.germany@forbo.com www.forbo-flooring.de

Forbo Flooring Systems is a global market player in project vinyl and world leader in linoleum floor coverings, where it has a market share of over 60%. The marmoleum sport floor belongs to the category of area-elastic sports floor constructions and fulfils the latest European sport flooring standards.

geo3 GmbH Uedemer Straße 196 47551 Bedburg-Hau, Germany Phone +49(0)2823 419910 kontakt@geo3.de www.geo3.de

Since its founding in July 2000, the company has been specialising in the design and construction of outdoor sports facilities. This can involve the modernisation of natural or artificial turf, cinder or synthetic playing surfaces, the conversion of cinder pitches into artificial turf (for which there has been growing demand in recent years), or the design of new sports facilities. All the required work for each location and task is performed from a single source.

Gerflor Mipolam GmbH Postfach 14 65 53824 Troisdorf, Germany Fon +49(0)2241 25300 gerflormipolam@gerflor.com www.gerflor.de

Gerflor is recognized as a specialist and a world leader in resilient flooring solutions.

Taraflex® Sports Flooring are designed for safety and comfort. Their multi-layered construction includes 100% pure vinyl, a reinforced fiberglass grid and closed-cell foam backing to provide shock absorption, help fight fatigue, deliver consistent ball bounce, and protect against skin burns.

GfKK – Gesellschaft für KältetechnikKlimatechnik mbH Dieselstraße 7 50859 Köln, Germany Phone +49(0)2234 40060 info@gfkk.de www.gfkk.de

GfKK is a plant construction, distribution and service specialist in industrial refrigeration, process refrigeration, refrigeration/air conditioning and ice sports refrigeration.

Numerous ice sports facilities bear the company’s signature.

Gütegemeinschaft Sportgeräte Inspektion/Wartung und Erstellung (Montage) e.V. The sports equipment quality association “Gütegemeinschaft Sportgeräte e.V.” brings Adenauerallee 134 together eight experienced sports equipment manufacturers. The association thus 53113 Bonn, Germany stands for assured and certified quality in the inspection, maintenance and construcPhone +49(0)228 926593-25 tion of sports equipment. This quality guarantees safety – for users as well as for sports info@sichere-sporthalle.de hall operators. www.sichere-sporthalle.de

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Hamberger Flooring GmbH & Co. KG Rohrdorfer Str. 133 83071 Stephanskirchen, Germany Phone +49(0)8031 7000 info@hamberger.de www.hamberger.de

With the floor covering brand name “HARO”, Hamberger Industriewerke GmbH in Stephanskirchen near Rosenheim has grown to become the German market leader for parquet. Under the brand name HARO SPORTS, portable and fixedinstalled elastic coating sports floors have been produced at the company’s Sports Floor Division since 1958.

HARO SPORTS Flooring give decision-makers and investors the opportunity to receive comprehensive advice on the best flooring solution for sports and multi-purpose halls, from a team of experienced experts.

Hauraton GmbH & Co. KG Werkstraße 13 76437 Rastatt, Germany Phone +49(0)7222 9580 info@hauraton.com www.hauraton.com

The history of HAURATON is a history of innovations. Since the development of the first drainage channels in 1958 HAURATON products set the benchmark worldwide. HAURATON offers a special range of products for stadiums and sports grounds, which are designed especially for the demands of sports facilities. The channels made from recycled plastic are constructed so as to prevent the sportspersons from injuring themselves.

The products conform of course to all international standards at the same time.

heiler GmbH & Co. KG Bokelstraße 1 33649 Bielefeld, Germany Phone +49(0)521 947150 info@heiler-sport.de www.heiler-sport.de

heiler engages in professional sports ground construction and has acquired a list of bigname clubs as references for its services. heiler specialises not only in the construction 5/2015 of new sports grounds, but also in the conversion of existing cindersb playing surfaces.

The enterprise group of HINKE Schwimmbad Österreich/Deutschland constructs highly modern swimming pools made of stainless steel. hsb is one of the leading swimming pools construction companies in Europe. Municipal swimming pools in all parts of Europe prove our efficiency and bear witness to the proverbial hsb-quality.

hsb austria gmbh Dr. Scheiber-Straße 28 4870 Vöcklamarkt, Austria Phone +43(0)7682 2831 office@hsb.eu www.hsb.eu

Over 135 years of experience in timber stand behind Holz-Speckmann, the manufacturer of the mobile SPEED-LOCK floors. The highly productive timber wholesale forms the basis for the development and production of innovative products. Holz-Speckmann produces SPEED-LOCK floors with state-of-the-art CNC machines. The permanent quality control ensures highest precision and durability of the floors.

Holz-Speckmann GmbH Weststraße 15 33790 Halle, Germany Phone +49(0)5201 1890 halle@holz-speckmann.de www.holz-speckmann.de www.speed-lock.com

HÖRGER builds and sells cleaning machines for sports facilities and particularly special-purpose cleaning machines for synthetic running tracks, artificial turf surfaces and paved surfaces.

Hörger Maschinen e.K. Langenstraße 2 21781 Cadenberge, Germany Phone +49(0)4777 931373 info@hoerger-maschinen.de www.hoerger-maschinen.eu

We rent and sell mobile ice rinks including the necessary equipment and complete technical implementation. It does not matter whether you want a gala ice rink in the premium segment, a city skating rink, a professional ice hockey rink or a whole fun ice park. We deliver!

We can also summer! From the inventors of the energy saving mobile aluminum ice rink there is now also a mobile water game with jets for inner cities during the summer time: The PlayFountain®

Ice-World Ice-Business GmbH Moortwiete 2N 25479 Ellerau, Germany Phone +49(0)941 4644880 r.buchner@iceworld-icebusiness.de www.iceworld-icebusiness.de

INTERGREEN AG has been building sports facilities of all sizes for over 40 years. Small, regional and large, internationally active clubs appreciate our skills and experience and the quality of our work. INTERGREEN AG has developed machines, processes and systems that pursue a single goal: that of building high-quality sports facilities that are reasonably priced.

Geschäftsstelle INTERGREEN AG c/o Science to Business GmbH Hochschule Osnabrück Gebäude ED Raum 0104, Emsweg 3 49090 Osnabrück, Germany info@intergreen.de www.intergreen.de

The ISP GmbH is operating a laboratory, in which material testing of synthetic sports surfarces, artificial turf systems, impact absorbing wall coverings and sports hall floor systems is performed. ISP`s laboratory is accredited in accordance with DIN EN ISO 17025.

The ISP expertise also includes the certification testing of all kind of synthetic sports floor systems for indoor and outdoor use, key stage inspections of installation works, assessment of existing sports facilities, and quality monitoring of building materials.

ISP GmbH Südstraße 1A 49196 Bad Laer, Germany Phone +49(0)5424 8097891 info@isp-germany.com www.isp-germany.com

ISS has 35 years experience in building solar absorbers for heating pool systems and building recreational and sports facilities. ISS is also specialist in developing and building ice rinks as well as renting out ice rinks.

ISS GmbH Ice & Solar Systems Im Geisbaum 13 63329 Egelsbach, Germany Phone +49(0)6103 94170 info@iss4u.de www.iss4u.de

IST Leipzig is a German test Lab for tests of sports flooring systems accredited according to EN ISO 17025. The scope of the lab ranges from tests of indoor sports floors, artificial turf systems and synthetic surfaces up to test of playground surfaces. Padded walls and safety against ball throwing are tested as well. Tests are performed both as lab-test and as field-test in the built-in final state: lab-tests for testing systems or components, fieldtests for the installation quality.

IST – Institut für Sportbodentechnik Freiburger Allee 28 04416 Markkleeberg, Germany Phone +49(0)341 35 86 584 bhaerting@t-online.de www.sportboden-leipzig.de

Construction Project Management is the core business of our company. For us, project management is the objectives of our clients, economically and efficiently. Our mission is to realize short construction, sustainable building quality within budget We specialize in real estate in the sports and leisure center area.

Andreas Kernig Building Consultant Albersloher Weg 10 48155 Münster, Germany Telefon +49(0)251 23948850 info@andreaskernig.de www.andreaskernig.de

KRAIBURG Relastec GmbH & Co. KG is an independent enterprise in the KRAIBURG Holding. SPORTEC® rubber flooring products and elastic layers from KRAIBURG Relastec are proven products refined by continuous further development. A wide range of users - including system providers, specialist distributors, architects and builders of sports facilities - benefit from the advantages they provide. All SPORTEC® products are manufactured in proprietary environment-friendly processes utilizing upwards of 90% recycled rubber materials.

KRAIBURG Relastec GmbH & Co. KG Fuchsberger Straße 4 29410 Salzwedel, Germany Phone +49(0)8683 701 340 sportec@kraiburg-relastec.com www.kraiburg-relastec.com/sportec

KUTTER is an innovative and high-performance company that not only plays a leading role all over southern Germany in classical gardening and landscaping, but is also a toprate and reliable operator in specialised fields such as sports facility construction, golf course construction and synthetic surface technology.

Hermann Kutter Landschaftsbau Sportplatzbau GmbH & Co. KG Buxheimer Straße 116 87700 Memmingen, Germany Phone +49(0)8331 97730 info@kutter-galabau.de www.kutter-galabau.de

Herbert Labarre GmbH & Co. KG was founded in Hamburg in 1904 and is a renowned gardening, landscaping and sports ground construction company. Herbert Labarre GmbH offers its customers skilled, punctual and expert consultation, price quotation sb 5/2015 and execution.

Herbert Labarre GmbH & Co. KG Alsterdorfer Str. 514-516 22337 Hamburg, Germany Phone +49(0)40 596036 labarre-galabau@t-online.de www.labarre-galabau.de

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LAPPSET Spiel-, Park-, Freizeitsysteme GmbH Kränkelsweg 32 41748 Viersen, Germany Phone +49(0)2162 501980 deutschland@lappset.com www.lappset.de

Lappset aims to create an inspiring environment for enjoying the outdoors. Their highquality play and sports equipment assist with growth and development as well as maintain and improve physical function and mobility in later life. Their equipment is complemented by their park and street furniture that help to harmoniously integrate green areas with surrounding buildings.

LEDeXCHANGE GmbH Rolandsecker Weg 39 53619 Rheinbreitbach, Germany Phone +49(0)2224 989871-0 info@led-ex.de www.led-ex.de

We produce high quality LED lamps based on our own development and are a full service provider in the field of LED retrofit lamps.

We develop and distribute our own LED products since March 2011 and we are one of the few officially entitled by the EU to attest the GREEN LIGHTING certification.

We stand for quality, efficiency and reliability. We offer you a comprehensive full size service like planning, prototyping, production of special colors, financing, conversion by partners and warranty service.

M3 Architectes 15, rue Wurth-Paquet 2737 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Phone +352 26 44 74 1 mail@m3archi.lu www.m3archi.lu

M3 Architectes is currently led by five associates, Jos Dell, Alain Linster, Mary Lucas, Jürgen Simon and Luke Schroeder assisted by a team of 40 employees, including 29 architects. M3 Architectes exercises in most fields of construction, urban planning and interior design.

McArena GmbH Karl-Ferdinand-Braun-Str. 3 71522 Backnang, Germany Phone +49(0)7191 378990-1 info@mcarena.de www.mcarena.de

McArena is an innovative mixture of sports ground and sports hall, combining the advantages of both systems. Here sports person are always protected all weather conditions and at the same time can enjoy sports at the fresh air. Build as a closed cage with modern artifi cial turf and a high quality lights system, it provides perfect requirements for many sports. McArena is open to everybody! Just book your personal time online and have fun in the McArena.

Melos GmbH Bismarckstr. 4-10 49324 Melle, Germany Phone +49(0)5422 94470 info@melos-gmbh.com www.melos-gmbh.com

For more than 70 years, MELOS have been developing know-how in rubber technology. In the granules product area, MELOS major activity is the manufacture of synthetic granules for running tracks and drop protection systems in playgrounds. MELOS also manufacture infill granules for artificial turf systems.

Nagelstutz und Eichler GmbH & Co. KG Industriestraße 16 45739 Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany Phone +49(0)2368 69030 info@ne-paneeldecken.de www.ne-paneeldecken.de

Nagelstutz und Eichler is one of Germany’s leading manufacturers of linear ceiling systems. As a company with a strong market presence and over 50 years of experience, Nagelstutz und Eichler is synonymous with heavy-duty metal ceilings. With nonferrous panel ceilings, sustainable and value-retaining room designs can be realised. When it comes to individuality, economy and durability, Nagelstutz und Eichler is the company to contact, from the idea through to completion.

Neptunus GmbH Georg-Glock-Straße 8 40474 Düsseldorf, Germany Phone +49(0)3222 1090176 sales.de@neptunus.eu www.neptunus.de

Neptunus is one of the largest providers of marquees, semi-permanent and temporary accommodation worldwide. With its 75 years of experience, Neptunus supplies marquees and accommodation for top events, in addition to demountable structures for numerous semi-permanent applications. Neptunus has developed temporary sports hall structures with big fl exibility and sustainibility.

Novoter experts have more than 30 years of experience in planning, coordination, construction and maintenance of natural grass soccer fields and ice plants as well as in heating, cooling and control technology. Experience which leads to innovation.

Nüssli (Deutschland) GmbH Rothgrund 6 91154 Roth, Germany Fon +49(0)9171 97630 Fax +49(0)9171 976350 roth@nussli.com www.nussli.com

NUSSLI is a leading, international supplier of temporary structures for events, trade fairs and exhibitions. NUSSLI provides customized, integral solutions from the concept to the fi nal implementation. These are characterized by brief implementation times and superior quality.

OSRAM GmbH Marcel-Breuer-Straße 6 80807 München, Germany sports-lighting@osram.de www.osram.de

OSRAM is one of the world’s two leading light manufacturers. With its portfolio, the company covers the entire value chain from components and control gear through to complete luminaires, light management systems and lighting solutions. Together with its subsidiaries Siteco and Traxon Technologies, OSRAM offers complete light solutions for all fields of applications within sports facilities from a single source.

Pellikaan Bauunternehmen Deutschland GmbH Kaiserswerther Straße 115 40880 Ratingen, Germany Phone +49(0)2102 429060 info@pellikaan.de www.pellikaan.de

Pellikaan specialises in non-housing projects; buildings used for commerce, recreation, and education. As an experienced and unique partner, the company will work closely with its clients and can provide a total package, or a combination of: Design, Build, sb 5/2015 Finance ,Maintain, Operate, Feasibility.

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Novoter AG, headquartered in Switzerland, provides an innovative turf heating and cooling system which saves up to 80% of the energy costs of conventional systems.

Novoter AG Auberg 2 4051 Basel, Switzerland Phone +41(0)61 2715100 info@novoter.com www.novoter.com

PERROT, the professionals of turf irrigation and good service, and their reliable partners advise on any kind of questions right from the planning stage, concerning offers, delivery and installation, up to the point of commissioning. Individual requirements will be analyzed in a detailed counseling interview with our specialized staff - also on site if required.

PERROT-Regnerbau Calw GmbH Industriestraße 19-29 75382 Althengstett, Germany Phone +49(0)7051 1620 perrot@perrot.de www.perrot.de

Planungsbüro Deyle (PBD) has been building facilities for international top-level sport since 1965. Company founder Werner Deyle built the first artificial-ice bobsleigh track.

And PBD has been one of the world’s leaders in this field to the present day. Through the construction of ice tracks, ice halls, sports halls and arenas, the breadth of our work has steadily expanded. Today our repertoire also includes hotels, competition and leisure pools, and multifunctional complexes with flexible and diversified usage strategies.

Planungsbüro Deyle GmbH Krötenweg 13 70499 Stuttgart, Germany Phone +49(0)711 9866-00 info@deyle.de www.planungsbuero-deyle.de

On your behalf, Planungsbüro Pätzold + Snowadsky carries out extensive concept design, demand assessment and feasibility studies. In addition, it also performs urban planning studies and target planning in special areas, e.g. sports facility development planning in conformity with the guidelines of the German Federal Sports Institute.

Planungsbüro Pätzold + Snowadsky Katharinenstraße 31 49078 Osnabrück, Germany Phone +49(0)541 404320 info@ps-planung.de www.ps-planung.de

PM ENGINEERING SRL, with more than 50 years’ experience, is well known on the international markets with high quality products, fruit of deep researches. All the production phases (design, cutting, H.F. welding ) are carried out inside the factory, using upto-date and automated equipments. The production process is always subject to careful inspections/tests on the raw materials and on the manufacturing cycle, so assuring high quality products, according to the European standards. The Company is certified UNI-EN ISO 9001: 2008

PM Engineering S.r.l. via V.Monti, 3 20030 SENAGO (MI), Italy Phone +39 02 9989701 texarch@plastecomilano.com www.plastecomilano.com

Based in Burgheim, Polytan has been the leading specialist for outdoor sports surfaces for more than 40 years. The spectrum of services includes the supply of polyurethane raw materials, the installation of synthetic surfaces for athletics tracks, all-weather pitches, elastic layers for synthetic turfs, the supply and installation of traditional and filled synthetic turfs, lining, repairs and the cleaning of sports surfaces.

POLYTAN Sportstättenbau GmbH Postfach 40 86664 Burgheim, Germany Phone +49(0)8432 870 info@polytan.com www.polytan.de

PORPLASTIC offers comprehensive product and system programme for PUR-bound elastic sports floors, playground surfaces and synthetic turf systems as a complete assembly in accordance with DIN V 18035, parts 6 and 7, and the IAAF guidelines. Products proven in all climates and innovative technical solutions on site.

Porplastic Sportbau von Cramm GmbH & Co. KG Hohenneuffenstraße 14 72622 Nürtingen, Germany Phone +49(0)7022 24450-0 info@porplastic.de www.porplastic.de

Pulastic sports flooring is a brand of Sika Nederland B.V. We are an innovative organization and unite a variety of activities under one roof, from research and development to manufacturing and installation of polyurethane indoor and outdoor floors, including customer service and consulting.

Sika Nederland B.V. (Pulastic sports flooring) P.O. Box 420 7400 AK Deventer, Netherlands Phone +31(0)570 620744 export@nl.sika.com www.pulastic.com

RAUMKUNST ZT LLC offers professional support and accompaniment for planning and realization of sports facilities and spaces for assembly. RAUMKUNST ZT LLC possesses decades of experience with project development and construction of sports facilities as well as large scale assembly spaces such as football stadiums, gymnasiums, or trackand-field facilities. Our knowhow encompasses all phases of project development.

RAUMKUNST ZT GMBH SPORTARCHITEKTUR Mondscheingasse 7/1 1070 Wien, Austria Phone +43(0)1956 98 38 office@sportarchitektur.at www.sportarchitektur.at

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SEKISUI ALVEO (Benelux) BV De Raaf 33A 4102 DG Culemborg, Netherlands Phone +31(0)34 553 3939 alveosport@SekisuiAlveo.com www.alveosport.com

Alveosport is made by the Swiss company Sekisui Alveo AG, a European leader in foams specializing in polyolefin foams since 1971. The company is a subsidiary of Seki­ sui Chemical Co. Ltd., with a global staff of over 20,000, and a global leader in foams since 1968. Alveosport is distributed worldwide through the Sekisui Group, comprising a global network of 76 companies serving every major country. Contact your nearest representative today. Alveosport engineers are ready to design the playing field you’ve been dreaming of!

SERGE FERRARI BP 54 38352 La Tour du Pin Cedex, France Phone +33(0)474 974133 ferrari@ferrari-texyloop.com www.sergeferrari.com

The French manufacturing group Serge Ferrari is a leader in the flexible composite material sector. As the inventor of Précontraint Serge Ferrari technology, they design and manufacture flexible composite materials for architecture, yachting, industry, furniture, equipment protection, health and environment sectors. Serge Ferrari brings flexible composites with technical, functional and enviromental responses perfectly adapted to the most stringent requirements of major sporting events.

SEW® - Systemtechnik für Energierecycling und Wärmeflussbegrenzung GmbH Industriering Ost 86-90 47906 Kempen, Germany Phone +49(0)2152 91560 info@sew-kempen.de www.sew-kempen.de

SEW® - Systemtechnik für Energierecycling und Wärmeflussbegrenzung GmbH is a maker of heat/cold recovery systems for all ventilation and air conditioning systems, specialising in heat recovery for indoor swimming pools, cold recovery and demisting for ice sports centres and room air cooling for sports facilities with heat recovery.

Signgrass® NIK-Tufting BV Stökskesweg 13 5571 TJ Bergeijk, Netherlands Phone +31(0)497 572545 info@signgrass.com www.signgrass.com

The idea behind Signgrass® is to manufacture a seamless logo, slogan or design up to 4 x 9 meters out of one piece and in fine detail. Th synthetic grass mats can be incorporated at artificial turf pitches, sports grounds, children’s playgrounds, golfgreens and commercial flooring like door mats and exhibition flooring. Signgrass® meets a quality standard which will exceed every expectation and brings numerous possibilities. Strong and durable.

SMG Sportplatzmaschinenbau GmbH Postfach 1150 89265 Vöhringen, Germany Phone +49(0)7306 96650 info@smg-gmbh.de www.smg-gmbh.de

Since 1975 SMG has been dealing with the development of modern machinery for the installation of synthetic surfaces in the sports industry. Also for the maintenance of artificial turf or carpets with granule infilling SMG has already presented the world‘s first innovations since the 80s. For about 35 years SMG has been offering a unique range of machinery. As a pioneer in the special sector „synthetic sports surfaces and artificial turf” SMG disposes of recognized competence and experience since decades.

SPORT-THIEME GmbH Helmstedter Straße 40 38368 Grasleben, Germany Phone +49(0)5357 18181 info@sport-thieme.de www.sport-thieme.de

Over the five decades of its existence, Sport-Thieme being a traditional family firm has always proven itself as youthful, dynamic and innovative. For more than half a century now, Sport-Thieme has been competent advisor to school and club sports as well as in the area of fitness and therapy. Today Sport-Thieme is one of the most important mail order companies for institutional sports. It has grown to be one of the recognised leaders in this branch of industry.

STARGUM Zakład Przemysłu Gumowego Jan Stankiewicz ul. Cieplna 7 73-110, Stargard Szczeciński, Poland Phone +48 91 578 8008 office@stargum.pl www.stargum.pl

STARGUM is one of the leading producers of rubber granules for sport and recreational surfaces such as football pitches, running tracks and playgrounds. With over 30 years of experience in the rubber industry, EPDM, TPE-V, and SBR granules produced by STARGUM are among the highest quality granules on the market. Manufactured in the European Union, our granules meet the highest standards for environmental safety and health, and our flexible, high capacity production ensures we can meet each of our customers’ individual needs.

STRABAG Sportstättenbau GmbH 44147 Dortmund, Germany Phone +49(0)231 9820230 sportstaettenbau-dortmund@strabag.com www.strabag-sportstaettenbau.com

STRABAG Sportstättenbau GmbH specialises in complete solutions for indoor and outdoor sports facilities, inclusive of maintenance and care. Numerous projects have been realised in this way – among them, public-private partnerships, inclusive of building construction and financing. We have the right solution for all sports-related requirements.

Trofil Sportbodensysteme GmbH & Co. KG Löhestrasse 40 53773 Hennef, Germany Phone +49(0)2242 933 880 info@Trofil-Sport.de www.Trofil-Sport.de

The production of high-quality mono filaments from hair strength has now been developed at Trofil for 25 years. From granulates through to mono filament production, the refinement (plying, etc.), tufting, right through to lamination, Trofil supplies products for the highest demands, manufactured from a single source, with which Trofil offers flexibility in the product design by directly converting the customer’s specific wishes and requirements.

Universal Sport Sportgeräteherstellungs- und Vertriebs GmbH Waldstraße 8 71101 Schönaich, Germany Phone +49(0)7031 75330 info@universal-sport.com www.universal-sport.com

Since the establishment of Universal Sport in 1982 a worldwide net of sales representatives has been set up. On more than 3000 m² sport product’s get engineered, produced and stored. With the always present thought of safety, we have revised many of our items, for example Umpire’s Chairs, Tennis Nets and Tennis Posts.

Vector Foiltec GmbH Steinacker 3 28717 Bremen, Germany Phone +49(0)421 69351-0 de@vector-foiltec.com www.vector-foiltec.com

Vector Foiltec designed, manufactured and installed the first ETFE cladding system in 1981 and has retained our position as markets leaders in this field. We currently manufacture our product under the trademark of Texlon®. Vector Foiltec holds the world’s most comprehensive body of ETFE related research data and continue to bring new and innovative products to the market. We are proud of our consistent track record in the delivery of elegant cost effective engineering solutions to meet our client’s many, varied sb 5/2015 and often complex needs.

Waagner-Biro is a steel engineering organisation based in Vienna. Founded in 1854, the tradition-conscious company has amassed nearly 160 years of experience. Today, Waagner-Biro has more than a thousand employees working at some 15 locations in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Waagner-Biro is one of the largest suppliers of stage equipment world-wide.

Waagner-Biro Bavaria Stage Systems GmbH Am Schönbühl 12 92729 Weiherhammer, Germany Phone +49(0)9605 92220 stagesystems.bavaria@waagner-biro.com www.waagner-biro.at

Weinberger is the leading company in the Rhine-Neckar area for screeding, floorcoverings (carpeting, linoleum, rubber and PVC surfaces), parquet, sports floors, net curtains, decorative fabrics, wallpaper etc. In the sports flooring sector, it is the right contact when it comes to special surfaces for outdoor ball games, floor systems for sports and multi-purpose halls, and special flooring for fitness centres/weight training rooms.

Eugen Weinberger GmbH & Co. KG Gutenbergstraße 41-43 68167 Mannheim, Germany Phone +49(0)621 338780 info@weinberger-raumdekor.de www.weinberger-raumdekor.de

Wiedenmann GmbH, founded in 1964 as a family-owned enterprise, is one of the leading manufacturers of high-class machines for turf maintenance, dirt removal and winter service. The comprehensive range of implements for compact tractors and lightduty utility vehicles is targeted towards commercial and municipal customers. The main focus are machines for turf regeneration, artificial turf maintenance, collection and removal of grass and leaves, mower decks, turf sweepers and as well as sweepers for snow and dirt, snow blades and salt spreaders.

Wiedenmann GmbH Am Bahnhof 89192 Rammingen, Germany Phone +49(0)7345 9530 info@wiedenmann.de www.wiedenmann.de

Zeller´s qualified staff are the guarantee for creative, technically sound solutions. On their company premises of 14,000 m², Zeller uses the latest equipment and techniques in the production of the stainless steel elements for your swimming pool.

ZELLER bäderbau GmbH In den Seewiesen 49 89520 Heidenheim, Germany Phone +49(0)7321 93890 info@zeller-baederbau.com www.zeller-baederbau.com

Züko is designing and producing ice-preparation machines (ice resurfacer) . Züko is also proud of its large and efficient workshop. Here, not only municipal vehicles and equipment, which were bought at the ZüKo, but also foreign brands can be serviced.

Züko Deutschland GmbH Vogelherd 23 78176 Blumberg, Germany Phone +49(0)7702 477920 deutschland@zueko.com www.zueko.com

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