Amazon Calm: Rio’s Deteriorating Olympic Games Venues
Barely completed in time, venues at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are going south in a big way now that the athletes have left. The Games of the XXXI Olympiad - ...
Tag: Stadiums
Slam Drunk: 12 Weird, Wild & Wacky Basketball Courts
These 12 jaw-dropping basketball courts stretch the limits of Dr. James Naismith's original vision far beyond the prescient gym teacher's wildest hoop dreams. ...
Gold Metal Architecture: Olympic Stadiums, 1896 – 2012
Over the last 116 years, Olympic stadiums have gone from sprawling marble structures made from ancient Greek ruins to strikingly illuminated bird's nest-shaped buildings. Designed by architects ...
Sporting Colors: 10 Crazy Colorful Football Fields
Want some artificial color with your synthetic stadium turf? Be careful what you wish for: Turf the color of surf is now a reality at many U.S. schools and the possibilities are mind-boggling... or ...
Score! 13 of the World’s Coolest & Craziest Stadiums
They host some of the world's most exciting events and are often among the most massive structures in any given city – so why are stadiums themselves usually bland and boring? These 13 stadium ...
10 South African Stadium Designs: 2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup scheduled to take place June 11th June through July 11th is the first to be held on the continent of Africa. Though many have expressed doubts that South Africa can ...
Then & Now: 8 Key Historical Olympic Villages & Venues
One of the reasons cities compete so savagely over the Olympic games in spite of the amount of debt that it can plunge them into is the opportunity to completely transform their infrastructure as ...
