{"id":877,"date":"2025-09-25T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:15:58","slug":"philadelphia-power-plant-transformed-into-sports-venue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/philadelphia-power-plant-transformed-into-sports-venue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia power plant transformed into sports venue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Local firms Good City Studio and Hexagon Studio Architects have converted the main turbine hall of a historic Philadelphia<\/a> power plant into Ballers, a sports club that includes indoor pickleball, soccer and squash courts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ballers<\/a> is located inside a portion of the newly renovated\u00a0 Delaware Power Station in Fishtown, Philadelphia, which was recently rebranded into a mixed-use complex called The Battery<\/a> that encompasses residential and retail spaces. The power station was constructed in the early 1900s and was in use until 2005, and the majority of the tranformation was carried out by architecture studio Strada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ballers is located in a renovated power plant in Philadelphia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ballers is located in the building’s former turbine hall, which stretches out in a horizontal volume between the original entrance hall and the backside that faces the water, which is now filled with apartments and a rooftop pool sandwiched between defunct smokestacks.<\/p>\n

Sports courts are spread out intermittently along the ground level and a mezzanine level, while a restaurant is partially enclosed at the centre, and smaller social spaces and courts line the perimeter.<\/p>\n

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Sports fields stretch out in a horizontal band in a former turbine hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good City Studio founder and Ballers chief creative officer Amanda Potter, who worked with local firm Hexagon Studio Architects<\/a> on the project, said the scale of the building and the column-free, sky-lit 75-foot-tall (23-metre) hall “made the space incredibly conducive to court sports”.<\/p>\n

“The grand ceiling and immense stretches of column-free area made the space incredibly conducive to court sports,” Potter told Dezeen<\/p>\n