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The world's first 3D-printed parkour park is unveiled in Prague

2021-10-05T18:21:00-04:00

The world’s first 3D-printed parkour park was unveiled in Prague 11, a municipal district in Prague, Czech Republic.

The project was a joint endeavor between building society Stavební spořitelna České spořitelny (Buřinka), 3Deposition, and the Prague 11 municipality. It was designed by architect and vice chairman of the Czech Parkour Association Daniel Samek.

The park spans a diameter of 14 meters (46 feet) and contains 14 3D-printed elements connected by steel pipes. The elements were printed on a frame printer using recycled concrete, known as rebetong, by 3Deposition, a company founded by researchers from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Brno University of Technology. The printing, which took 10 hours, required 12.5 tons of special concrete mix from Master Builders Solutions CZ.

Aside from parkour training, the elements of the playground can also be used as an outdoor gym and are intended to be used by everyone starting at ten years old. As noted by Buřinka, the advant...

After Banksy: the parkour guide to Gaza

2015-03-11T14:29:00-04:00

My name is Abdallah AlQassab, nearly 50% of us are unemployed and we are very available to show you around

In response to graffiti artist Banksy's Make this the Year YOU Discover a New Destination Gaza tourist video, the territory's parkour team show us what real life is like there and their dreams beyond the border. To the sounds of Palestine's biggest female hip-hop artist, Shadia Mansour, join Abdallah AlQassab and the rest of the free-running team as they flip, somersault and leap their way round the ruined city

Parkour Architectural | Villa Savoye

2014-09-18T12:59:00-04:00

Discover the Villa Savoye as you've never seen it before, through the discipline of Parkour and the movements of traceurs !

Le Corbusier, the real grandfather of hip-hop, could also be the inspiration behind the parkour?

AllesWirdGut Wins Bauhaereprais for LUX - Place de l’Académie

2012-06-28T18:17:00-04:00

Viennese architecture practice AllesWirdGut has just won the prestigious Luxembourg Bauhaereprais (builders award) in the category 'Space and Landscape Design.' At a festive gala this week, the firm was presented the award for its project LUX - Place de l'Académie, the architectural design on a former steel mill in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.