Meeting places: 17 examples of bleachers in architecture

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Ever since the classic example of the Piazza di Spagna stairway in Rome – where local citizens gather, fashion shows happen, and tourists make an (almost) mandatory stop – we understand that the possibility of being on different levels contemplating space has great appeal to human sociability. In contemporary architecture, there is no shortage of examples in the use of bleachers to create these meeting places marked by its versatility.

Next, we present 17 projects that have adopted the bleachers as one of its main elements.

Beecroft Building at Oxford University/ Hawkins\Brown

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Cite: Delaqua, Victor. "Meeting places: 17 examples of bleachers in architecture " [Lugares de encontro: 17 exemplos de arquibancadas na arquitetura] 06 Jul 2026. ArchDaily. (Trans. Montano, Zoë) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/911734/meeting-places-17-examples-of-bleachers-in-architecture> ISSN 0719-8884
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