Sports venue in Shanghai, China
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
The
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
(
Chinese
:
上海?方?育中心
), also known as the Shanghai Aquatic Sports Center, is a sports venue that started construction on December 30, 2008, and was completed in late 2010.
The center has an indoor arena named
Indoor Stadium
seating 18,000, an indoor swimming pool seating 5,000, and an outdoor swimming pool also seating 5,000. The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
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is close to
Huangpu River
, next to Expo Park in
Shanghai
's
Pudong New Area
. The total investment was two billion
yuan
. The center is situated near the
Oriental Sports Center station
on the
Shanghai Metro
.
Indoor stadium
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The main venue at the sports complex is the
Indoor Stadium
, used for the home games of the
arena football
club
Shanghai Skywalkers
. It has a capacity of 18,000 and it is used for various events, like arena football, speed skating, basketball, mixed martial arts, figure skating, swimming and eSports.
Notable events
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Structure
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The arena was designed by German architecture firm
GMP
. The facility sits on a man-made lake that connects to the Huangpu River.
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The sport center's area is 34.75 hectares (85.9 acres); the floor space is 163,800 square metres (1,763,000 sq ft).
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In the construction, the workers used 3,000 tons steel to build the architecture.
References
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External links
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Media related to
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
at Wikimedia Commons
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