ASPIRE Architecture Awarded a Silver Medal of its Own

The ASPIRE Dome has won awards from the prestigious International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS).
Al Bawaba

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ASPIRE Architecture Awarded a Silver Medal of its Own
By Al Bawaba
Published: August 16, 2007

The ASPIRE Dome has won awards from the prestigious International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS).

The Doha venue won the silver award, in a contest involving 88 sports and leisure facilities from over 27 countries. Having successfully hosted the Asian Games in 2006, Qatar finished ahead of all other competition from the GCC region.

Dr. Thomas Flock, ASPIRE Director General said: “The facilities have become a fantastic symbol of the continuing growth of the region. These iconic buildings are also part of the attraction for the hundreds of visitors to the ASPIRE Academy in recent months.”

The high standard of architecture is one component among many that has contributed to ASPIRE’s international reputation. Gaining the silver medal further demonstrates the Academy’s emergence as a major landmark in the sporting world.

Among students preparing to return to ASPIRE at the end of the summer, the award is welcome proof that they will be continuing their studies in a beautiful learning environment, the largest covered multi-sports dome on the planet.

The awards ceremony is scheduled to start on October 31 in Germany.

About ASPIRE
ASPIRE, the Academy for Sports Excellence, Doha, was created with the dual aims of identifying and transforming promising student athletes into world renowned champions across a wide range of sports and to act as a beacon to draw sporting culture into the centre of life in Qatar and the surrounding region.

The Academy is distinguished by a philosophy which aims to develop the whole student, providing them with full academic, social and sporting development.

Unrivalled facilities mark the Academy out as one of the world’s foremost sporting and educational institutions, and entice an ever increasing number of visitors from across the spectrum of world sports to use or simply view them.

With one indoor and seven outdoor football pitches, athletics tracks, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, diving pool, combat arenas, gymnastics arena, specially designed weight rooms, lecture halls, dormitories to accommodate what will eventually become 1,000 students, a medical centre and more besides, much beneath the world’s largest purpose built indoor sports dome, every aspect of the development of elite athletes is catered for. ASPIRE is a place for those who dare to dream.