Leisure and Sport Facilities

An architect's illustrated guide to the latest developments and designs for state-of-the-art swimming pools, garden pools and other flat surface water features.

A detailed, design-led guide to the most iconic, greatest and intimidating sporting arenas in the world.

The book overviews and analyses the most important steps that transformed initial design intentions into a defined proposal, passing through different solutions, changes, debates, and negotiations among the different stakeholders called into action along the whole process.

A study of the striking Vortex building in Lausanne, Switzerland, the home for the athletes of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games.

A handbook on the design and the planning of libraries. It features contributions by experts from architecture and library science who analyze specific aspects of the building type; a typology of some 40 exemplary international projects that provides inspiration and a range of options.