Ever heard of Folkestone, England? Chances are, you haven’t – yet. But all that’s about to change once the sleepy seaside port town on the English Channel opens F51. Designed by British architect and ...

The world's first purpose-built, multi-storey skate park will finally open to the public in April after years of delays, rising costs and construction challenges. Its backers say the £17 million ...

Typically popular with the younger generations (although not only) and a powerful urban culture for over half a century, skateboarding was one of the four new categories added to the Olympic Games in ...

The striking scheme, featuring three skateable floors, is part of the Kent coastal town’s ongoing revival, writes Fran Williams. Photography Hufton+Crow As you enter the world’s first multistorey ...

Two eagerly-awaited show-piece sports venues are expected to finally open by the summer. Both the F51 skate park at the junction of Tontine Street and Dover Road in Folkestone and the new athletics ...

Three skateparks are stacked on top of each other in F51, a major new attraction in Kent, England, designed by Hollaway Studio. The building, which claims to be the first multi-storey skatepark in the ...

An abandoned sports centre is set to partially reopen next year - but bosses have warned they still need to find more funding ...

Hollaway Studio designed the F51 Skate Park in Folkestone, United Kingdom. This project is known as the "world’s first purpose-built multi-storey skatepark" as part of a major ongoing programme to ...

This giant, aluminium-clad spaceship has just landed in the south of England. Peering at it, you probably wouldn’t guess it was packed full of swooping timber ramps, undulating concrete and unwieldy ...

A state school has become the first in Britain to get its own skate park. Folkestone Academy's new $198,000 facility is available to students during school days and to the wider community at weekends.