Sports: The Architectural Review issue 1512, June 2024
Sports: The Architectural Review issue 1512, June 2024
The 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games aim to be the greenest in history: ‘The era of gigantism is over’, says its organising committee, promising to prioritise reuse of existing venues rather than grand new commissions. But, as Sven Daniel Wolfe writes in this issue’s keynote, ‘The Olympics are unlikely to ever be authentically sustainable until we subtract profit from the equation.’ Other ways of catering for sports are possible, offered by architects past and present across this issue. Sports are always political; and sports persist, even when architects and planners fail to cater for them.
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Caruso St John architects | NP2F | Taller Héctor Barroso | Octavio Buigas | Pier Luigi Nervi | AgwA | Arsomsilp | Turenscape | Níall Mclaughlin Architects