English bureau chosen to design sports campus

FaulknerBrowns Architects from Newcastle-upon-Tyne has been chosen as the preferred designer for the Sports Campus in Zuiderpark.

The bureau was chosen unanimously from five presentations submitted to the international design competition. The committee which evaluated the presentations was made up of representatives from the Vestia housing corporation, The Hague University and the Municipality of The Hague.

The Zuiderpark Sports Campus will be built on the site of the former ADO Den Haag football stadium. It will be a facility which offers education, training and research in the fields of sport, movement and health and fitness.

The Sports Campus will be comprised of a training institute called The Academy for Sports Studies, ROC Mondriaan with its Sport & Movement College and accommodation for a number of sport-related organisations, which will provide the link between elite and recreational sport. The campus will have an elite sports arena accommodating up to 3,500 spectators, a hall for recreational sports and beach sports and a gymnastics hall.

Plans call for construction to start in 2013 and the sports campus should begin operations in 2015.

The three partners in the project signed a cooperation agreement in December 2010 to realise the Zuiderpark Sports Campus. The agreement stipulated which facilities would be provided there.

The plan submitted by FaulknerBrowns fits in with the park’s natural surroundings.

English Institute of Sports in Shefield. Designed by FaulknerBrowns