Applications, Sport

A true heavy weight contender in the Baltics

Laying between Gdańsk to the south and Gdynia in the north lays the lesser known resort city of Sopot on the Baltic coast. Here the new Ergo Arena and Entertainment Hall (EAEH) has taken the seemingly perfected sports arena... 

A New Sound at Sun City Super Bowl

The purpose built resort of Sun City, lying a couple of hours north west of Johannesburg, is unashamedly dedicated to pleasure and entertainment on a luxury scale. Only the best will do. So the combination of a d&b audiotechnik... 

A volcano in Guadalajara, and one that doesn’t stop flights

For Club Deportivo Guadalajara SA de CV, or Chivas to their fans, success is endemic. With more silverware in the trophy cupboard than any other club, this is the only soccer team never to have been out of the Mexican First... 

South East Asia Games

While athletics competitions haven't knocked comedy off their pedestal as the new rock and roll, they are getting closer; they are quite simply, great crowd pleasers. As with other sports, it's television that's driving the... 

Canada wins in more ways than one at the Winter Olympics

It didn't start out this way, but Ontario House at the Concord Pacific Site, part of the Winter Olympic facilities, has turned into a bit of a phenomenon for the people thronging Vancouver hungry for Olympic action. As the name... 

d&b plays in the big league at Euro 2008

Like a plague of mega sports bars, this year's Euro 2008 competition sees Switzerland sprouting giant outdoor LED screens with concert style PA systems in sixteen of its major provincial cities. Sponsored by Swiss Banking giant... 

Heavy Metal Ice Hockey. d&b at Magnitogorsk's Arena Metallurg

The city of Magnitogorsk is both a monument to Stalinist planning blight, and one of the modern wonders of twentieth century industrialism. Literally translated as "Magnet Mountain City", it was built from scratch close to the... 

Not Lego, but building blocks nevertheless

For a nation fixated on model building, (Germany has the highest per capita concentration of model railway enthusiasts in the world) they have outdone themselves for the World Cup. The notion is inspired. Accept the premise that... 

d&b running the line for the World Cup

Being a German company, d&b has particularly strong, well established installation partners with both the abilities and experience to tackle the large scale projects in the run up to the Football World Cup 2006. d&b supplied new... 

Helsinki's Olympic Stadium: 1930's functionalism with d&b's functionality

In a brief chronology, Finland became an independent nation state in 1917, three years later they competed in their first modern Olympics and, buoyed by their success, became determined that they would one day stage their own... 

Democracy for Cowboys

It is quite some time ago that Thomas Cook discovered Australia for the Europeans, and in fact only a few miles away from Townsville, which today is mostly known as the springboard to Magnetic Island, where Cook first landed.... 

Adidas, eggs & bulbs

It seems that nothing is impossible, least of all when you chose part of the Disney empire for a location. But ice hockey, outdoors in Florida, in summer; surely something surreal was happening? "Martin Stoll designed the... 

d&b survives big freeze

How do you persuade 20,000 people to stand outside in the snow and freezing cold for hours on end? Staged on and around the outdoor ice rink of the Sapporo 1972 Winter Olympics, Toyota Big Air was a snowboard jump event with a...