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A swimming pool suspended 35m (115ft) above the ground and forming a bridge between two buildings has opened as part of a residential project in ... More

The Middle East Architecture Network (MEAN*) have designed a pavilion for rest and gatherings in the Wadi Rum desert valley in the south of Jordan ... More

The Rocks Push (TRP), a sustainable swimwear brand based in Australia, has partnered with Drift Distribution, which will act as the brand's exclusive European distributor, ... More

A team of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, have invented a special type of engineered wood that might be able to reduce ... More

Magic blankets and carpets are the stuff of legend, but a fabric recently developed by scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD) has been proven ... More

US National Football League (NFL) franchise the Atlanta Falcons has released a new video showing the final stages of construction work on their US$1.5bn (€1.3bn, ... More

A team of engineers in Saudi Arabia has proposed how stadium seats in the near future could be made more sustainably using the fibres of ... More

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have today (1 March) been selected as the winners of the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The award – ... More

The year ahead promises much excitement in the world of leisure architecture and design. New designs will be unveiled, ongoing projects will take shape and ... More

2016 has been a breakthrough year for leisure architecture, with buildings celebrated by some of the world's most prestigious architecture awards, including the World Architecture ... More

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from Kengo Kuma’s Tokyo National Stadium, which is now under construction, to Ian ... More

The myriad of potential applications of a spray-on protective polymer have being showcased through an unlikely medium: an online video of an indestructible watermelon. In ... More

UPDATE: Snøhetta's striking and hotly-anticipated new building for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) opens today (14 May) in the US city. The international ... More

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new material that can temporarily protect and tighten skin – and smooth wrinkles. They hope ... More

Beijing-based innovators MAD Architects have designed a flowing, translucent installation for the 2016 Milan Design Week in the famous courtyard of the city’s university. The ... More

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his studio BIG have been chosen to design the 2016 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion within London’s Kensington Gardens. The studio now ... More

Dramatic drone footage of the ongoing construction of Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium has been released. The short film shows workers installing the structure's first 70ft (21m) ... More

The year ahead promises much excitement in the world of leisure architecture and design. New designs will be unveiled, ongoing projects will take shape and ... More

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will officially open its Snøhetta-designed 235,000sq ft (21,800sq m) extension on May 14, 2016. The creation of ... More

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has completed work on a new tennis clubhouse in Amsterdam which allows spectators to view the on-court action from the structure’s ... More

As part of plans to make its new stadium among the most eco-friendly in the world, the Atlanta Falcons have unveiled plans to surround the ... More

Spanish architecture studio SelgasCano’s colourful Serpentine Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens is to open this week. It is the fifteenth incarnation of the pavilion commission, ... More

A new approach to 3D printing promises to deliver commercial quality manufactured parts at a much faster rate. Silicon Valley-based Carbon3D’s ‘Continuous Liquid Interface Production’ ... More

American football side the Atlanta Falcons has released a fly-through video of its new US$1.4bn (€1.2bn, £922m) stadium, set to open in downtown Atlanta in ... More

Before creating the RumbleRoller, years of study of other foam rollers took place. Many different types of advanced polymers were tested and this research resulted ... More