Danish architect Henning Larsen has won a design competition for a timber swimming and sports centre in Sweden’s second city, Gothenburg.
Commissioned by the City of Gothenburg, the 51,850-sq-m Centralbadet will have olympic-sized pools, learning pools, sports halls, a gym, saunas, terraces, cafés and gathering spaces inside a timber-structure designed to meld into surrounding parks and the wider city.
The building’s roofscape extends outdoors to warm-up areas, running tracks, outdoor gyms and terraces.
Façades feature recycled bricks and timber elements designed for disassembly and reuse.
Henning Larsen – working with Winell & Jern Architects, Ramboll, and John Dohlsten, a sports science lecturer at the University of Gothenburg – beat contestants including Bjarke Angels Group and Wingårdh Arkitektkontor.
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