Abbiategrasso (Milan): reconstruction of the swimming centre

di Bruno Grillini - 4 January 20232 January 2023

The disused municipal swimming pool has been replaced with a new facility including indoor and outdoor pools and a spray park, built through a public-private partnership project.

Cremona, restyling of ‘Zini’ Stadium

di Bruno Grillini - 22 December 202220 December 2022

A historic facility that today, thanks to a careful preservation and renovation project, enjoys a contemporary feel in terms of comfort and functionality – necessary for a club back in Serie A – without losing its original imprint and recognisability.

Rackets

di Bruno Grillini - 20 December 202220 December 2022

A few thoughts on today’s emerging sports: from padel to pickleball.

FIFA World Cup 2022: the new and the traditional in Qatar’s stadiums

di Antonio Cunazza - 13 December 202213 December 2022

The FIFA World Cup 2022 could become an important case study of how a tournament of this size can change the paradigms of the ‘legacy’ left to cities in terms of structures and facilities.

Waterville, Maine (USA): Athletics and Recreation Center at Colby College

di Sabina Orrico - 13 December 202213 December 2022

New Athletics and recreation center at Colby College (Maine), with a multi-use field house, an Olympic-sized pool, a competition gymnasium, a fitness center, and multi-purpose studios.

Anzio (Rome): the City of Sport

di Sabina Orrico - 13 December 202213 December 2022

In Anzio, just 50 km from Rome (Italy), along the via Nettunense, the City of Sport is made of a sports palace and a swimming stadium, on a surface area of approximately 14 hectares.

Reggio Emilia: The new works at the Mapei Stadium

di Bruno Grillini - 2 November 202231 October 2022

The extraordinary maintenance work that Mapei, the company that owns the structure, planned this year began at the end of June and was completed in mid-August, so as not to interfere with the football championship. This entailed a complex management of the works, carried out simultaneously on different sectors of the structure, in the limited time available of only 71 working days.

Nuvolera (Brescia): Renovation of an artificial turf football pitch

di Redazione - 27 October 202225 October 2022

The already synthetic pitch was implemented with a new generation turf and the adaptation of the sub-base, through a Public Private Partnership procedure that allowed for an integrated procedure that was economically more advantageous for the public administration.

Back to school

di Bruno Grillini - 26 October 202226 October 2022

Two thoughts on the topic of the Tsport Special Issue about school gyms.

Wien: Windtenstraße sports facility Eisring Süd

di Bruno Grillini - 5 September 20222 September 2022

With the new construction of a sports and fun hall, the comprehensive renovation of the existing ice rink and the construction of an outdoor ice rink, a new polysportive centre was opened in Favoriten in Vienna.

Lanuvio (Roma): Rugby sporting facility

di Bruno Grillini - 29 August 20222 September 2022

The existing multi-purpose sports centre in the hamlet of Campoleone di Lanuvio has been renovated and brought up to standard, becoming one of the few artificial turf facilities dedicated specifically to rugby in the Metropolitan City of Rome.

Pietrasanta (Lucca): Renovation of the athletics track

di Bruno Grillini - 26 August 202219 August 2022

The athletics track located inside the ‘Falcone e Borsellino’ multipurpose facility underwent a necessary redevelopment.

Land take

di Bruno Grillini - 19 August 20222 September 2022

The topic of urban regeneration, dealt with in issue 365 of Tsport, is connected with that of land use: one of the aspects highlighted during the summer season that has just passed is that of microclimatic alterations due to the transformation of unbuilt areas.

Colorado Springs (USA): US Olympic and Paralympic Museum

di Sabina Orrico - 29 June 20224 July 2022

The Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado is a tribute to the Olympic and Paralympic movement and its athletes and their stories. The museum focuses on the most important values of the Olympic and Paralympic movement: friendship, respect, excellence, determination, equality, and courage.

Bolzano: refurbishment and enlargement of the Druso Stadium

di Bruno Grillini - 28 June 202224 June 2022

FC Suedtirol Bolzano celebrates promotion from Lega Pro to Serie B in conjunction with the completion of renovations to the historic city Stadium, with the grandstands increased to a capacity of 5,500 spectators.

Rozzano (Milan): a small sports centre for football

di Riccardo Consoli - 27 June 202223 June 2022

A careful choice of materials and finishes characterizes the building serving the new eleven-a-side soccer field with synthetic grass, recently built on the edge of the Parco Agricolo Sud Milano in Rozzano.

Mondovì (Cuneo): energy and structural upgrading of the municipal swimming pool

di Cesare Lino - 24 June 202223 June 2022

Mondovi’s municipal swimming pool, built in the 1970s, has undergone major energy, structural and aesthetic upgrading to make it a nearly zero fossil fuel energy building (nZEB) under the PROSPECT 2030 project implemented with 2014/2020 ERDF funds.

The designer must choose

di Bruno Grillini - 15 June 202224 June 2022

We have also discussed this in the recent Sport&Impianti webinars. When faced with the design of a sports facility, which requires the installation of specific materials related to the athletic performance of future users, a generic specification definition (perhaps accompanied by the words ‘or equivalent’) is not enough to guarantee the result.

Tolentino (Macerata): new tennis center

di Cesare Lino - 21 April 202215 April 2022

In an area hit by the earthquake in 2016, the new sports center is positioned as a reference point to meet the needs of normality of the population.

Seattle (USA): the Climate Pledge Arena

di Joseph Wolfe - 20 April 202215 April 2022

The world’s first certified net-zero arena was born from the redevelopment of a facility created for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. Opened last fall, it hosts Seattle Storm basketball and Seattle Kraken ice hockey, as well as live music events and concerts.

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