The New York Knicks’ latest NBA championship has found a new place in the city’s collective memory. The team’s 2025–26 Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy will go on display at the American Museum of Natural History as part of For the Win: Objects of Sports Excellence, an exhibition dedicated to the objects that have come to embody athletic achievement.

Arena Under Bridge reimagines one of Shanghai’s overlooked infrastructural voids as a living public landscape, demonstrating how architecture can emerge from the smallest of interventions. Created for the 2023 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, the project transforms the residual space beneath a vehicular bridge along the Huangpu River into a place where movement, performance and everyday urban life naturally converge.

Designed by AZUT, the Asian Games Cricket Field at Zhejiang University of Technology redefines the role of a contemporary sports venue, positioning architecture as a meeting point between cultural memory, public life and the surrounding landscape.

Sam Crawford Architects have completed a new sports pavilion within the Willowdale sports ground in Denham Court, a fast-growing suburb on Sydney’s western edge near the international airport. Set within a 5.5-hectare community field surrounded by detached housing, the project sits at a point where contemporary suburban development meets a landscape that has been used by Indigenous communities for up to 10,000 years.