Sports & Recreation
Courts, pitches, climbing walls, skate parks and the places to play without a membership.
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- Lisbon's public ping-pong tables — This is a collection of ping-pong tables around Lisbon; in parks, squares, neighbourhoods and wherever else you can find a place to play. K…
- The stadiums in the running for the 2030 World Cup — Six countries, three continents and a tournament that opens in Montevideo before moving to Iberia and North Africa: the 2030 venue list is…
- The 1972 Olympic buildings of Munich's Olympiapark — Behnisch & Partner won the 1967 competition with a landscape rather than a set of monuments, and Frei Otto's engineers turned the sketch in…
- The stadiums of the 2026 World Cup — Sixteen grounds across three countries carried the 2026 tournament, and only one of them was built for football: the rest are NFL bowls, a…
- Los Angeles' major league stadiums and arenas — Five venues carry every top-flight professional team in the Los Angeles basin, and they are spread across four separate municipalities, fro…
- The competition venues of the Paris 2024 Olympics — Paris 2024 was built on a bargain: put the sport inside buildings the city already had, and only build where the city needed something afte…
- Links that have hosted the Open — The Open has been played on fourteen courses since 1860, and the roster splits neatly into three groups: the ten links currently in the R&A…
- Golf Clubs Bought and Rebuilt Under Trump — Almost none of these courses were laid out from scratch: they were established clubs, distressed resorts and private estates acquired and t…
- Berlin's public ping-pong tables — Cast concrete tables with steel mesh nets sit in Berlin parks and squares by the hundred, some installed by district parks departments afte…
- London lidos that stay open through winter — Winter is when London's outdoor pools sort themselves out: a handful drain and lock up in September, while others keep the lanes marked and…
- New York City's public skateparks, one borough at a time — Five city-run concrete plazas and bowls, read borough by borough, with the details that decide whether a trip is worth it: who the surface…