Sports & leisure

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Thialf ice arena, Heerenveen

Most sustainable ice skating stadium in the world

For the Dutch, skating is not just a sport; it is an event that opens their hearts. Skating competitions in ice arenas are emotional events…

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Venue Building Silt, Middelkerke

Striking building at the Belgian coast

Both inspiring and principled, venue building Silt Middelkerke is an asset to the Belgian coast in several respects. With great love of the…

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Diamond Exchange, Capital C Amsterdam, Amsterdam

New life for a monument

Historically an exchange is the meeting place of markets and people, goods and ideas, and that is how the renewed Diamond Exchange meets…

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AFAS stadium AZ, Alkmaar

A Theatre for Football

Along the motorway A9, just south of Alkmaar, lies the stadium of AZ football club. The original stadium was realized in 2007, based on a…

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Renovation Climate Greenhouse Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam

The eye-catcher of the  Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus was designed in the early 1990s by architectural studio ZJA, as a contemporary structure…

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Sports and culture complex Linter

Light and transparent sports facility of glass and wood

Surrounded by two full-sized training pitches, two mini-soccer pitches and a large competition pitch is Linter’s sport and culture building.

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Sports Hall De Koekoek, Hamont-Achel

The new sports hall De Koekoek in Hamont-Achel is optimally fitted into the green residential surroundings and characterized by the use of…

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Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam

A playground for Rotterdam

Generations of aficionados of boxing, cycling, tennis, figure skating and basketball cherish their memories that have Rotterdam Ahoy as…

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Timeless Box, Skybox Johan Cruijff ArenA, Amsterdam

Have you ever noticed the waves that hide inside brown cardboard boxes which move silently and unobtrusively through the world? They are in…

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Sports centre Sportoase Groot Schijn, Deurne

Ice and water sustainably united

In Deurne, on the eastern rim of the city of Antwerp, right in the middle of Groot Schijn Park, lies a special sports building. One can…

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Freedom Museum, Groesbeek

Parachute in the landscape

Amid the green hills rises the impressive white dome of the new Freedom Museum in Groesbeek. The museum is shaped like a giant parachute…

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Shaded Dome

The Shaded Dome concept

When approaching a Shaded Dome one might wonder: is this a tent or a building? Entering and studying it clarifies that the most correct…

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Dutch Pavilion, Seville

When in 1990 Moshé Zwarts and Rein Jansma learned they had won the competition to do the design for the Dutch Pavilion at the 1992 World…

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Dubai Sports Central, Dubai

Multifunctional stadium in the desert

Dubai Sports Central combines football facilities with luxurious gardens, shops, and apartments, where the architecture merges into a…

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Sporthal Groot Schijn, Deurne

Compact sports hall in green environment

For the school campus of Community Education in Deurne, in the Groot Schijn Park just to the east of Antwerp, architectural studio ZJA, in…

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Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam

Saving the old botanical garden

The glasshouse for the Amsterdam botanical garden, dating from 1993, is one of the earliest significant projects the architectural studio…

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