The Split’s Spaladium or Spaladium Center, sports and business complex was designed by Architects 3LHD is located in Lora, Split, Croatia, on the northern part of the Split peninsula, in the vicinity of Poljud, a sports complex with a football field and pool built for The Mediterranean Games in 1979. The new building of Split’s [...]

Designed by SHL, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Birkerød’s Sports and Leisure Centre, located in Birkerød, Denmark is a multi-purpose hub in Birkerød’s public space. This newly completed sports and leisure complex in Birkerød has a distinctive, sculptural quality, further enhanced by the building’s essential transparency. The building’s organic curves echo the undulating landscape of its [...]

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The size of spaces may result from a variety of considerations including the limitations posed by the finances and materials available for construction and, in a temperate climate, the costs involved in heating large as opposed to small spaces. ‘Scale’ is the term we use to discuss the [...]

Bale (Valle in Italian) is a small place in Istria peninsula, Croatia with a largely agrarian population of 1000 people. The project for the new sports hall found itself in the midst of the rich historical, cultural and social Mediterranean context. Therefore, any new architectural intervention had to be respectful of the environment.