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Architecture for Sport [Hardcover]

Peter Stürzebecher (Author), Sigrid Ulrich (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0470846984 | ISBN-13: 978-0470846988 | Publication Date: September 23, 2002 | Edition: 1

* Includes the work of such leading architects as Enric Miralles, Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, and Massimiliano Fuksas.
* Features projects from around the world.
* Comprehensively illustrated with plans, drawings, and photographs.
* This is an English language co-edition of an existing German work.

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* Features projects from around the world.
* Comprehensively illustrated with plans, drawings, and photographs.
* This is an English language co-edition of an existing German work.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

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Sport is becoming a philosophy of life. Sport architecture is today increasingly seen as a commercial symbol, reflecting a growing culture of mainly media-induced grandeur. Consequently, structures built for international sports events are effectively the largest 'theatre buildings' of our times - a far cry from the formal severity of ancient examples.

A contrary trend in sport architecture is represented by complex volumes constructed in an elegant and yet economical way. Partly functionally severe with reduced forms, partly playful, and often timeless, sports buildings of this type feature increasingly flexible structural features such as retractable roofs.

This book was conceived against this background of current trends. It presents a varied selection of the most inspirational sports buildings to have emerged throughout the world in recent years. Contributions by international specialists add to the debate on the nature and form of sport architecture. Among the structures featured are football and Olympic stadia, sports halls, velodromes and grandstands, swimming centres and open-air pools, thermal baths and seaside resorts and a formula-one racetrack, representing the full range of this field of architecture.

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Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher: Academy Press; 1 edition (September 23, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470846984
ISBN-13: 978-0470846988
Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.1 x 1 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,229,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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swimming centre, adventure pool, sports architecture, sports buildings, recreational buildings, bathing resort, laminated safety glass, sports hall, sports site, underground buildings, prefabricated parts, centre court, retractable roof, glass exteriors, million euros, sports area

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Olympic Games, Renzo Piano, New York, Tony Gamier, Werner Sobek, Dominique Perrault, Tadao Ando, World Cup, Herzo Base, Philip Cox, Richard Horden, Michael Alder, Sydney International Athletic Centre, Tadashi Kawamata, Albert Constantin, Bad Elster, Joan Benoit, Livio Vacchini, Rue de Candie, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Peter Heppel, Victor Mani, Joschka Fischer, Ming Pei, New Caledonia

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