Hangzhou Sports Center
For many stadiums and arenas, there is frequently a tradeoff between sustainability, performance and iconic design. Hangzhou Sports Center unites all three, featuring a poetic, floral-inspired design that simultaneously reduces carbon and material use. The development uses 67% less steel than Beijing Olympic Stadium, making it both beautiful and sustainable while creating a world-class sporting venue for a booming city.
New construction has tripled Hangzhou’s size in the past decade, resulting in a modern architectural fabric that is powerful in scale, yet still in need of public space. As part of the city’s riverfront development, NBBJ in partnership with CCDI has designed the Hangzhou Sports Park to be a vibrant, sustainable, pedestrian-centric recreation development.
Features
To save resources and create flexibility, the design team employed computational scripts to reduce steel: 1) by linking the steel shell and concrete bowl together at each level so the two systems work in unison; and 2) by providing additional structure at the bowl’s top to reduce the roof cantilever.
Project Details
Client Name
City of Hangzhou
Square Meters
37,000 SM
Program
80,000-seat main stadium, 10,000-seat tennis center, convention center, aquatic center, retail
Services
Architecture, lighting design
Phase
Completed
Client Name
City of Hangzhou
Square Meters
37,000 SM
Program
80,000-seat main stadium, 10,000-seat tennis center, convention center, aquatic center, retail
Services
Architecture, lighting design
Phase
Completed
TheStadiumBusiness Design and Development, Finalist
ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards, Finalist - Sports Category
Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards, Honorable Mention - Space and Places
Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Award
Prix Versailles Sports Award
TheStadiumBusiness Design and Development, Finalist
ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards, Finalist - Sports Category
Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards, Honorable Mention - Space and Places
Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Award
Prix Versailles Sports Award
ArchDigest, “This Flower-Inspired Stadium Design Is All About Sustainability”
Designboom, “NBBJ expresses sustainable hangzhou stadiums with organic lotus-petal elements”
Dezeen, “NBBJ models Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center stadium on lotus flower”
Metropolis, “A Campus for the 2022 Winter Games Blossoms in Hangzhou”
South China Morning Post, “Mainland China towers scraping the sky in a green and modern way”
ArchDigest, “This Flower-Inspired Stadium Design Is All About Sustainability”
Designboom, “NBBJ expresses sustainable hangzhou stadiums with organic lotus-petal elements”
Dezeen, “NBBJ models Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center stadium on lotus flower”
Metropolis, “A Campus for the 2022 Winter Games Blossoms in Hangzhou”
South China Morning Post, “Mainland China towers scraping the sky in a green and modern way”
