Vienna architecture firm Coop Himmelb(l)au, founded by Wolf Prix, has won the competition to redesign SCA Arena and Park in St. Petersburg, Russia. Announced this week, the sports arena’s winning design by the firm is inspired by 20th century Russian constructivist artists, translating the movement’s ideals of expressive dynamism into a contemporary, and architectural, context.
Coop Himmelb(l)au’s design keeps the interior of the existing concrete arena (built in 2000) intact, while outside adding a frenetic steel-filigree cladding and framework. The concept is based on the curved, structural lines of Vladimir Tatlin's unbuilt Monument to the Third International, and is meant to evoke “the flowing, dynamic movement of a person skating around the stadium,” according to the firm in a statement.
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