Conducted in collaboration with the Bayside Council and funded by the New South Wales Government, the sports and recreation area project integrates advanced design elements of landscaping, signage and architecture to enhance the user experience for the local community and visitors.

Taken from the speech by Alastair Cox (ESTC Technical Director) at the Sport&Impianti FORUM on 19 February 2025 at Myplant & Garden 2025.

In a poor neighbourhood of the capital, a facility built with poor materials and simple but effective architecture that expresses the desire to also be an instrument of social dialogue. The sports centre, inaugurated last November, is named after a world champion boxer who died prematurely in 2017.

The Energizer Park in St. Louis is an example of integrating the sports facility into an urban regeneration plan, within a broader concept of openness to the city and sustainable living.

The Philips Stadion, in its evolution, reflects the architectural diversity of Eindhoven, and has transformed almost in parallel with the city, becoming today a contemporary structure with a well-defined technological soul, and perfectly integrated in what is a conurbation with just over 200,000 inhabitants. Enriched by choices increasingly oriented towards technological optimisation, such as the installation of a sound and speaker system specifically designed for this facility, and the recent introduction of the new lighting system for the grass growth of the playing field, the PSV stadium, like Eindhoven, is a virtuous example in the relationship between space and architecture.