Nendo designs build-your-own football for kids from impoverished communities
Japanese studio Nendo has developed a football that doesn't need to be inflated and can instead be assembled by hand from 54 interlocking plastic modules. More
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H-O-TT envisions furniture that turns into exercise equipment
Table legs double up as dumbbells and stools as push-up bars in this conceptual collection of furniture by Amsterdam design studio H-O-TT. More
Nendo designs logo and trophy that can be sliced to create medals for Japan's athletics association
Japanese design studio Nendo has created the logo for the Japan Association for University Athletics and Sport, which can be extruded to create its trophies and cut to make its medals. More
Pattern Design completes "open air-cooled" stadium ahead of Qatar World Cup
The Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan, which will host games on an artificially cooled pitch during the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar, has officially opened exactly two years before the football tournament begins. More
Wood Marsh derives form of surf club "directly from its location" on Australian coastline
Australian architecture studio Wood Marsh has designed the Ocean Grove Surf Life Saving Club to emerge from the surrounding sand dunes on the southern coast of Australia, near Melbourne. More
Reed Watts creates "discrete but identifiable" cricket pavilion in Richmond upon Thames
UK architecture studio Reed Watts has created a timber clubhouse for an amateur cricket team in London's Bushy Park that is designed to be both modern and familiar. More
Geometric timber roofs cover Diamond Domes tennis courts in Switzerland
Swiss timber company Neue Holzbau has created a pair of geometric cross-laminated timber roofs for two indoor tennis courts by Rüssli Architekten in Bürgenstock, Switzerland. More
Scaled is a flexible body cast that could protect athletes from injuries
Design graduate Natalie Kerres has developed Scaled, a flexible protective cast for athletes made of interlocking scales like those of a pangolin. More
Victor Solomon mends dilapidated LA basketball court using Japanese art of kintsugi
Artist Victor Solomon has patched up the cracks in a Los Angeles basketball court with golden resin to highlight the role that sport can play in our collective healing process. More
Twelve Architects designs holiday homes to overlook Silverstone race track
Twelve Architects has designed the 60-holiday-home Escapade Silverstone development that will directly overlook the race track at Silverstone – home of the British Grand Prix. More
Nike reveals herringbone-patterned Chelsea kit informed by Savile Row
Sportswear company Nike looked to the suit-makers of Savile Row to design London-based Chelsea Football Club's home kit for the upcoming 2020/2021 Premier League season. More
Nike ditches smooth design for ridges on Premier League Flight football
Nike has released its new Flight ball for the 2020/21 Premier League that has geometric grooves and sculpted chevrons to reduce drag. More
Live talk on the relationship between sport and design as part of VDF
Nelly Ben Hayoun led a relay panel discussion on how sports can influence the design industry as part of our Sports Day collaboration with the designer for Virtual Design Festival. More
Lemoal Lemoal Architectes builds translucent half-timbered tennis pavilion
Paris studio Lemoal Lemoal Architectes has completed a half-timbered changing pavilion at the Garden Tennis Club of Cabourg on the north coast of France. More
Nike designs first-ever Olympic skateboarding uniforms for Tokyo 2020
Colourful artwork decorates the skateboarding uniforms that Nike has designed for the sport's Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 summer games. More
Basketball player creates sneaker based on David Adjaye's African-American history museum
Basketball player Stephen Curry and sports brand Under Armour have created a sneaker influenced by architect David Adjaye's Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. More
Watch drone footage of the Super Bowl 2020 stadium
This exclusive drone footage shows the multi-purpose Hard Rock stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, which is hosting the 54th Super Bowl game. More
Miami police enlist students to create 3D-printed model of the Super Bowl stadium
The Miami-Dade Police has worked with architecture students at Florida International University to create a 3D-printed model of the Hard Rock Stadium to use for training ahead of the Super Bowl this weekend. More
OMA combines sports and science at Brighton College
Dutch architecture studio OMA has unveiled the School of Science and Sports at a historic college in Brighton, which merges academic and athletic facilities in one building. More
Zaha Hadid Architects wins approval for world's first all-timber stadium
Zaha Hadid Architects has won planning permission for the world's first wooden football stadium, which will be built in Gloucestershire, England for football club Forest Green Rovers. More