Basketball Arena (London)
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The Basketball Arena in April 2012
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| Location |
Olympic Park Stratford London United Kingdom |
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| Coordinates | 51°32′55″N 0°00′50″W / 51.5486°N 0.0139°WCoordinates: 51°32′55″N 0°00′50″W / 51.5486°N 0.0139°W |
| Operator | Olympic Delivery Authority |
| Capacity | 12,000 |
| Field size | Length 115 m, width 100 m, height 35 m. |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | October 2009 |
| Built | June 2011 |
| Construction cost |
GBP £ 40 million (£42.6 million in 2017 sterling) EUR € 49 million USD $ 62,5 million |
| Architect | Wilkinson Eyre Architects & KSS Design Group |
| Project manager | SKM |
| Structural engineer | SKM |
| Services engineer | SKM |
| Main contractors | GL events Slick Seating |
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2012 Summer Olympics 2012 Summer Paralympics |
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The Basketball Arena for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics was located in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London. The arena was designed to be fully recyclable, and was dismantled pending sale in January 2013.
London's Olympic bid proposed that there would be four arenas in the Olympic Park, but the revised masterplan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball matches being moved to Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The fencing arena was also cancelled, and the fencing took place at ExCeL.
The Basketball Arena had 12,000 seats for Olympic basketball and the semi-finals and finals of Olympic handball, and 10,000 for Paralympic wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. The arena was also used as a holding area for athletes during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the games. Concept designs by Wilkinson Eyre Architects & KSS Design Group were agreed in June 2008 and a planning application was submitted in November 2008. It was a temporary venue, and the largest built for any Olympic games. The possibility of subsequently deconstructing the arena and transporting it to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics was discussed, though the plan has been shelved due to doubts from some Brazilian officials about its feasibility.
In early October 2008 it was speculated that Wembley Arena could be used as a replacement venue for the preliminary rounds of the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament instead of the Basketball Arena, thus saving up to £90 million, but in March 2009 it was confirmed that a new arena would be built in Stratford as originally proposed.
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