Greater Bay Area Sports Centre by ZHA

Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has released construction photos of the Greater Bay Area Sports Centre. Set to open in 2025, the multi-venue complex sits in a 70-hectare park and will host the China National Games in November. Alongside its 60,000-seat stadium, the complex includes a 20,000-seat basketball arena and a 4,000-seat aquatics centre with a 50-metre-long swimming pool and diving facilities. While providing venues for sporting events, the complex will also be open to the community, with facilities for local schools and sports clubs. The complex will be complete with athlete accommodation, training pitches and running tracks.

Greater Bay Area Sports Centre will be characterised by Zaha Hadid Architects' signature sweeping forms, which in this project will nod to Song dynasty-era sailing ships. "The fluid forms of the centre's architecture echo the tapering geometries evident in the hulls of the region's traditional sailing ships that were initially designed approximately a thousand years ago," said the studio.

Meanwhile, the stadium will have a layered roofscape modelled on traditional Chinese silk fans, sheltering spectators from rain and sunlight. The seating bowl will be adaptable to suit different performances. A large arch puncturing the stadium's facade will allow cool sea air to enter while providing outward views that create "a direct connection between all spectators and the stadium's riverside setting". Other details that will define the network of buildings include vertical louvres on the facades, designed to shade and cool the buildings.

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