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2008 Beijing Olympic Green

Sasaki won first prize in the international design competition to establish the master plan for the Olympic Green – the main site of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. As winners of this original competition, Sasaki is proud to have set the urban design framework for the design of the Olympic Green. However, the actual implementation of the architecture and landscape architecture of the completed Olympic Green was accomplished by other firms.

University of California, Santa Barbara Recreation Center Expansion

A 52,800 square foot LEED-EB Silver certified expansion to the existing Recreation Center/Aquatics Complex designed by Sasaki.

York College of Pennsylvania Grumbacher Sports Facility

York College of Pennsylvania is responding to its growth needs by expanding its campus into a formerly industrial zone of York and using the parcel as a link between its main campus to the east and a growing residential campus to the west. At the heart of this new development is the recently completed Grumbacher Sports Facility, which was designed by Sasaki. Sasaki also served as master planner for the site and landscape architect for the sports fields that the building overlooks.

University of California, Merced Joseph E. Gallo Recreation and Wellness Center

The new 35,397 sf Recreation & Wellness Center occupies a transitional site on the new UC Merced campus, located between the academic core and the residential precinct. The LEED® Gold certified Center is a key player in fostering community on the campus, offering a meeting place outside the rigor of the classroom.

Cleveland State University Recreation Center

At Cleveland State University in Ohio, Sasaki is completing design for a 100,000 square foot, 3-story recreation center adjoining the existing athletic complex. Envisioned as the gateway to the urban campus's pedestrian skywalk system, this largely open-plan facility incorporates public circulation with views into the new gymnasium, running track, weights and fitness areas, racquetball courts, and MAC.

Cleveland Gateway

Sasaki’s urban and landscape design for the 28-acre sports district established an open space and street network that integrates the Cleveland Indians baseball stadium and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball arena into the downtown, creating an exciting urban complex.

Harvard University Hemenway Gymnasium Renovation

Sasaki provided programming, architectural and interior design services for the complete interior renovation and exterior restoration of the 28,000 square foot Hemenway Gym. The new facility now provides much needed fitness facilities for a previously under-served part of the Harvard campus.

Drexel University Wellness Center

The Drexel campus straddles both sides of Market Street in Philadelphia’s University City section. Sasaki's addition to the 1960s-era athletic complex, the Daskalasis Athletic Center (DAC), accomplishes several institutional and programmatic goals: it increases the university’s visual presence along Market Street, integrates existing and new buildings into a unified complex, and groups all of the recreation facilities into a new building wing. Respecting that the DAC is surrounded by one of Drexel’s few outdoor landscape spaces, the design also maximizes preservation of the site’s open space.

Loyola College in Maryland Intercollegiate Athletic Complex Site Design

Sasaki conducted a feasibility study and master plan to determine if a former landfill on the Loyola College campus could be reclaimed and used to house the college's proposed 6,000 seat stadium and three new playing fields.

Stony Brook University Recreation Center

The new LEED® Gold Registered recreation center for Stony Brook University is on an extraordinarily tight site. Both to accommodate an aggressive program and give the building a prominent visual presence on campus, the overriding architectural idea is to set two orthogonal volumes, housing the gymnasium and Multi-Activity Courts (MAC), against an articulated pavilion, housing weights and fitness, multi-purpose studios and administration, that responds to the site constraints. These elements recall the glacial history of the landscape; the orthogonal spaces as "erratics" and the pavilion the ice flows.

Sports
Sasaki's Sports Facilities Design Group draws on the firm's strength in campus planning, site design and architecture to develop an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses both the big picture of sports planning and the art and technique of building and sports field design.

Our Sports Group is recognized nationally for its planning and design expertise in the following areas: programming and feasibility studies, sports master plans, architectural design for new construction and renovation, site design and engineering for outdoor tracks and sports fields, sports consulting, and fitness environments.