Atlas Academy Rethinks the Stadium as a Miniature City

“When Atlas FC—one of Mexico’s oldest and most storied soccer clubs—set out to create a new home on the outskirts of Zapopan, west of Guadalajara, they could have followed the familiar path of most sports architecture: glass boxes, metal slabs, and isolated training facilities. Instead, they turned to Mexico City–based Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, who transformed a flat agricultural site into Atlas Academy, which firm principal Fernando Sordo Madaleno calls a “miniature city,” combining athletics, administration and community functions in one highly porous, very unique structure.”