(June 20, 2012, Dezeen magazine)--Football and athletics-loving Ethiopians will have a new FIFA and
Olympic-standard 60,000 seat stadium in Addis Ababa thanks to a
competition winning design combining local identity with new technology.
LAVA [Laboratory for Visionary Architecture] and Designsport collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports village, held by the Federal Sport Commission, Ethiopia.
Chris Bosse, LAVA director, said: “We have gone back to the very origin of stadium design with a sunken arena surrounded by grandstands formed from excavated material. This man-made crater is a clever remodelling of the existing terrain and generates efficient spaces, optimises environmental performance, minimises construction costs and integrates facilities within the existing landscape.”
Addis architect Daniel Assefa and director of JDAW said: “The design references Ethiopia’s world-famous excavated architecture – centuries-old rock churches, dwellings and cisterns. We see the sports city as a natural extension to this heritage, one that will draw many more visitors to our beautiful country.” Read more from Dezeen magazine » .
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LAVA [Laboratory for Visionary Architecture] and Designsport collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports village, held by the Federal Sport Commission, Ethiopia.
Chris Bosse, LAVA director, said: “We have gone back to the very origin of stadium design with a sunken arena surrounded by grandstands formed from excavated material. This man-made crater is a clever remodelling of the existing terrain and generates efficient spaces, optimises environmental performance, minimises construction costs and integrates facilities within the existing landscape.”
Addis architect Daniel Assefa and director of JDAW said: “The design references Ethiopia’s world-famous excavated architecture – centuries-old rock churches, dwellings and cisterns. We see the sports city as a natural extension to this heritage, one that will draw many more visitors to our beautiful country.” Read more from Dezeen magazine » .
What do you think? Leave your comment below.
1 comment:
The competitions not yet over, it is the first step of the competition to select the first three best designs and was done accordingly there are three runners for the second and third step.
Any way as to me and all of my friends who saw all the models presented I don’t understand how this design got first, there are other models much better and should go first second third.
It will be a point of discussion if you post some of the competitors model.
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