Rowing
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Project • By Tuncer Cakmakli Architects • Sports Centres
Fenerbahce Sport Club Rowing Branch
A House for Motıon: The Rowıng Clubhouse of Fenerbahçe Sports Club ın Kalamış BayFor over a century, the Fenerbahçe Sports Club has stood for athletic excellence, passion, and a deeply rooted community spirit. Active across nearly all disciplines—from youth football to professional rowing—the club not only trains athletes but also shapes the cultural and social life of Istanbul across generations. In this sense, the new rowing clubhouse, designed and built by TCA, is much more than just a building—it is a spatial embodiment of this legacy.
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Site and Context
Located directly on the coast in the calm Kalamış Bay, the clubhouse opens up to the water—the natural training gro... More
Project • By Alvaro Fernandes Andrade • Sports Centres
Rowing High Performance Centre in Pocinho
The guiding principles and strategies of the project for the Pocinho Center for High Performance Rowing play their part in a dense and inextricable mixture that includes the peculiarities and identity of a pre-existing, specific “place”; the characteristics and demands of a very recent program; and the needs and wants of the architectural act.
The first ones, about the specificity of the site, taken in a broad sense, as a "cultural being", it concerns mainly the Douro River Valley as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the correspondent ancestral expression of men´s intervention and transformation of the landscape.
Regarding the second, being a new program demanding architectural attention (the High Performance Sports Centers), in many ways... More