Sports & Recreation
Courts, pitches, climbing walls, skate parks and the places to play without a membership.
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- The circuits of the 2027 Formula One season — Formula 1's 2027 schedule holds at 24 rounds but raises the Sprint count to ten, hands the opening race back to Bahrain in March and runs t…
- Glasgow's public swimming pools — Almost every pool a Glaswegian can walk into is run by Glasgow Life on the council's behalf, which means the opening hours move with the bu…
- The stadiums of Euro 2028 — Five nations won the bid in October 2023 and ten grounds were named, but Belfast's Casement Park fell out when its £300 million rebuild mis…
- The arenas of the 2027 World Men's Handball Championship — Germany will run the January 2027 men's world championship through six halls, and the shape of the tournament is written into them: four pr…
- Vienna's bouldering halls — Bouldering is climbing at jump height, no rope and no harness, with thick mats underneath, and Vienna now has enough dedicated halls for th…
- The venues of the 2027 SEA Games — Malaysia is running the 2027 SEA Games across four host clusters rather than one Olympic park, which means the schedule is spread over foot…
- The stadiums in the running for AFCON 2027 — Three countries put forward more grounds than the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations will use, and the shortlist is still moving as CAF's technical…
- Düsseldorf's public baths — Düsseldorf runs its baths as one municipal network under the Bädergesellschaft, and the Bäderkonzept 2020 programme has rebuilt or extended…
- The Los Angeles venues of the 2028 Olympics — LA28 is building almost nothing. The competition plan approved by the IOC drops the Games into rooms the city already has, a 1920s stadium,…
- Stuttgart's public baths — Stuttgart sits on mineral springs, and three thermal baths draw on them while a second tier of district halls and seasonal outdoor pools do…
- The venues of Munich's Olympic bid — Munich is bidding for the Summer Games on a promise of distance rather than construction: nine tenths of the venues within half an hour of…
- Frankfurt's public swimming pools — Frankfurt runs its baths as one municipal system, which means the practical questions are the same everywhere and the answers are not: whet…
- Amsterdam's indoor swimming pools — Amsterdam swims indoors for most of the year, and the city's covered pools are not interchangeable: one is a 1912 conversion of a cycling s…
- Vienna's indoor swimming pools — Vienna swims indoors from October to April, and the question that actually decides a morning is which halls have water in them: the city's…
- Hamburg's public swimming pools — Almost every public pool in Hamburg is run by one city-owned company, so the pricing and the opening logic are broadly shared while the bui…
- Helsinki's public saunas — Helsinki's sauna culture is split between two things a visitor has to choose between: wood smoke and a lockable changing room. These are th…
- Copenhagen's public swimming halls — Copenhagen's harbour baths get all the attention, but they are a summer proposition; the city's indoor halls are what carries the other nin…
- Copenhagen's skateparks — Copenhagen's skateboarding is mostly municipal: the city's street-sport office runs or part-runs the parks, which is why the surfaces, ligh…
- Berlin's indoor swimming pools — Berlin swims indoors for most of the year, and the halls that make that possible range from 1898 brick gothic with a glass roof to a 50-met…
- 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…