The ARC (Amager Resource Center) waste-to-energy power plant in Copenhagen has been awarded ‘2021 World Building of the Year’ at the World Architecture Festival for its rooftop leisure area which includes a long dry ski slope wrapped around the building, its surface supplied by Italy-based Neveplast. The award however is a recognition of the building’s ecologically sensitive industrial design which

A large freestyle jump onto a Big Air Bag is under construction in Switzerland. The Leysin Big Air Bag is being built 27 metres high and will feature two ramps and three slopes. Fondation Leysin Big Air Bag has ordered 717.2㎡ of JF Dryski mat to cover the slopes for year-round use, although it appears there’ll be snow covering the

A new £15 million leisure centre currently under construction at Barnstaple in North Devon will feature an indoor conveyor ski machine. Work on the new Tarka Leisure Centre began during the pandemic began. It is being funded by North Devon Council, Sport England and the Coastal Communities Fund. The conveyor slope will be a top-of-the-range SkiMachine by Alpine Engineering, the

For many years, Bergbahn Kitzbühel (Austria) has been using Lifttrax SP sliding mats for the lift entry and exit of many chairlifts. These are not just standard dry slope matting, but a special, softer product designed for this very purpose. The resort has the longest season of any non-glacier resort in the Alps opening at the end of October using

A remarkable new hotel has opened in Italy’s South Tyrol region with a whole host of activities on offer – including year-round skiing on an artificial slope that descends from the roof. The Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido has been completely transformed from an earlier incarnation, re-opening at the weekend after a multi-million Euro makeover. Now unique in the world, the

Plans for what has, in previous incarnations, been priced at a £200 million year-round leisure resort development in the Afan Valley of South Wales have been granted conditional planning approval. Originally unveiled as the Afan Valley Leisure Resort project in spring 2017, the centre was originally slated to offer a range of outdoor sports including white water rafting, rock climbing,

After lengthy planning, the go-ahead has now been given for the construction of the largest dry ski centre in Europe, covering 19,000 square metres. The new facility, built from scratch by the city of Lviv in Ukraine, will be the 4th biggest in the world by area, and the largest year-round facility. Three-larger slopes by area in Japan and South

One of Scotland and the UK’s largest dry ski centres, Glasgow Ski and Snowboard Centre, has replaced the surface of its main slope. The facility, on Bellahouston Park only minutes away from central Glasgow, originally opened in 1968, and was extended in 2008. Glasgow Ski Centre boasts three slopes: a 100m floodlit Dendix main slope, a 60m Dendix slope and

Quebec based venture Adrénaline Urbaine have announced plans for a new facility which will feature a year-round rooftop terrain park. The French Canadian boardsports specialists have been running a mobile skate park across Canada,  encouraging people to get outside and feel the “Adrenaline”. But now they plan a 25,000 sqft permanent base to open at Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, with the

Year-round freestyle ski centres with jumps at the bottom of the run are getting more and more common, some countries now having more than one. These facilities allow freestyle skiers and boarders to practice their tricks in the air whatever the weather, landing either in a pool of water (sometimes even a river) or on to a big air bag.