Sustainable Designing – 3. Mitigation and adaptation are two ways of dealing with climate change in the daily practice of land planning and the design, construction and management of any building. To understand what to do, it is necessary to know the exact characteristics of the problem.

Sustainable designing Special Report – 1. Sustainable design is the design of products and processes optimising the consumption of raw materials and energy to minimize environmental impact. Standards and certification requirements guide us at a time when a new sensitivity to the environment is emerging, which, with the climate crisis, is sending us urgent danger signals.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 4. A commentary on the Biennale Architettura (The Laboratory of the Future) and Fondazione Prada (Everybody talks about the weather) exhibitions, both open until Nov. 26.

Special #33: Athletics surfaces – The world event as an opportunity for the city to equip itself with sports facilities that will remain as a legacy through urban regeneration.

The classification of surface types given in the World Athletics manuals and the FIDAL’s technical indications call for an in-depth study to clarify the range of technical possibilities, remembering that each surface must be functional for the use that will be made of the sports facility.

Special Report #35: Surfaces for athletics – Any type is permissible as long as it meets the physical requirements.

Tokyo 2020 was an Olympics unfortunate in that the programming was postponed for a year and the expected spectators were excluded almost entirely because of the global pandemic, but they were successful in terms of sporting results, especially for the Italians.

Many swimming facilities in Italy are being renovated with the addition of spray parks and water features next to the competition pools: in Tsport Special Issue 338 we take a look at aquatics beyond sport.

Ice Special Report: 9 – China is preparing to replicate the success of the 2008 Summer Olympics with the next winter event less than two years away.

Sports disciplines, universal design, athletic training centers in Tsport 333.

We have tackled the theme of sport that takes place in the open air, mainly in unstructured environments, from paths to playgrounds, all through the thread of the pedestrian and cycle path that runs through the Valtellina from Colico to Bormio, but not only.

The playground is a recent invention, and is constantly developing as the needs of users, small and large, become more specific and attentive.

Since 1998, the European standards EN1176 (equipment for playgrounds) and EN1177 (coating of playground surfaces) regulate the technical characteristics of the equipment and the UNI 11123:2004 standard regulates the design of parks and outdoor playgrounds.