Paris: when renovated basket playgrounds become genuine masterpieces

Calling all basket and street art fans! You certainly know the city is packed with 3x3 basketball courts and playgrounds. Places devoted to sport and basket-ball practice that have been subject to renovation – for several years now – as part of the Paris 2024 Olympics legacy. In all, about fifteen outdoor basketball grounds take part in this embellishment and renovation operation.

If you are curious or would like to take pictures of these Insta-worthy locations, meet on the most recent of them, the Sérurier sport ground, set across 29 boulevard Sérurier in Paris 19^th arrondissement.

Tweet reads: “playgrounds change! 15 3x3 basketball grounds are renovated by artists, great news for this new Olympic discipline! / Here at Square Claude Bernard”

Are you craving for more? Run to the Square du Docteur-Calmette in the 15^th arrondissement, to discover three playgrounds covered in blue and yellow by artist Polar.

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You can also head to the Vincent-Auriol P.E. training ground, in the 13^th arrondissement, renovated by French artist Jules Dedet Granel, also known as L’Atlas, or the Ladoumègue stadium grounds (19^th arrondissement).

These outdoor basketball ground renovations are expected to grant easier access to open-air sport practice, especially in working-class districts, “whilst mixing art and sport with the intervention of international and local artists committed with the territory they represent”, the City of Paris explains on their website.

Here are renovations of playgrounds over or to come in Paris

• 3 playgrounds at the Centre sportif Jules Ladoumègue (19th)
• 2 playgrounds at the Terrain d'éducation physique Sérurier (19th)
• 3 playgrounds at the Square du Docteur Calmette (Paris 15th)
• 2 playgrounds at the Centre Sportif Léo Lagrange (12th)
• 1 playground at the Jardins d’Éole (18th)
• 1 playground at the Square Léon (18th) 
• 1 playground at the Square Claude Bernard (19th) 
• 1 playground at the Square Charles Hermite (18th)
• 1 playground at the Parc Montsouris (14th)