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Sports brand Nike has unveiled an ultra-light football boot featuring components made from beans and recycled plastic (+ slideshow). More
Sports brand Nike has unveiled an ultra-light football boot featuring components made from beans and recycled plastic (+ slideshow). More
Chelsea Football Club have made an offer to buy Battersea Power Station in south London, with plans to redevelop it into a 60,000 capacity stadium - BBC More
Inside awards: as part of our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Andy Walker from Nike Football and Sean Pearson from RUFproject about the Football Training Centre in Soweto, which won the culture and civic category. More
Inside 2011: Football Training Centre/Soweto by RUFproject is the winner of the culture and civic category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. More
Sportswear brand Nike have launched the new away kit for France's national football team, based on the Breton stripe. More
Here's another football training centre (see Soweto training ground in our earlier story), this time a football academy for the junior team of FC Basel 1893 in Switzerland by Swiss studio Luca Selva Architekten. More
Canadian practice RUFproject have completed a football training centre in Soweto, South Africa, with wooden louvres wrapping the upper parts of the structure. More
The shoulder panels of the new England football kit feature a fabric printed with small coloured crosses, designed by British graphic designer Peter Saville.
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Soccer City in Johannesburg, reconstructed by architects Boogertman Urban Edge + Partners and global sports architecture firm Populous, will host the final of the FIFA World Cup, which starts next month. More
Dezeenwire: German magazine Form reports that industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has been appointed design consultant to German football club Bayern München - www.form.de Update 06/04/10: this was an April Fool joke and we fell for it! Hats off to Form magazine!
Related: see all our stories about Konstantin Grcic in our special category.
Dutch architects UNStudio have won a competition to design a football stadium in Dalian, China. More
Architects Herzog & de Meuron have unveiled revised plans for a football stadium on the waterfront at Porstmouth in England. More
FC Barcelona have unveiled the design of their new stadium by Foster + Partners. More
Wembley National Stadium in London was officially opened on Saturday, when it hosted the FA Cup final. More
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron are to build a hybrid stadium/apartment megastructure in Portsmouth, England, which will combine a new home for Portsmouth Football Club with residential elements. More