Hong Kong Coliseum
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Hong Kong Coliseum
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Minimalism |
| Town or city | Hung Hom, Kowloon |
| Country |
 Hong Kong
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| Construction started | March 1973 |
| Completed | August 1981 |
| Cost | HK$ 140 000 000 HK$ 160 000 000 (2008 renovation) |
| Client | Urban Council |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | reinforced concrete |
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Inside the Hong Kong Coliseum, during the FIVB World Grand Prix
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港體育館 | ||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 香港體育館 | ||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xiānggǎng Tǐyùguǎn |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | hēung góng ti yùh gwan |
| IPA | [hœ̂ːŋkɔ̌ːŋ.tǎːijùːkkʊ̌n] |
| Jyutping | hoeng1 gong2 tai2 juk6 gun2 |
Hong Kong Coliseum (Chinese: 香港體育館), commonly known as the Hung Hom Coliseum (紅磡體育館, 紅館) is a multi-purpose indoor arena, in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
It was built by the Urban Council and inaugurated on 27 April 1983.
The coliseum has 12,500 seats, which is the second largest among indoor facilities in Hong Kong, only behind the 2005-opened AsiaWorld-Arena.
It is now managed by the Leisure and Cultural Service Department of the Hong Kong Government.
The Hong Kong Coliseum consists of a big arena and a number of conference rooms.
The arena is rectangular with sides 41m each, with a concrete cement flooring.
During performances, the floor may be covered with different overmounted floorings, such as demountable wooden flooring or various rubberized roll-outs, to facilitate the set-up of sporting equipment and the playing of different sporting activities such as futsal, badminton, basketball, volleyball and ice-skating.
Moreover, the floor can hold strong pressures up to 1,800 kg/m2, which cannot even be done by industrial buildings. This facilitates the set up of stages, platforms and sound equipments during concerts and other concert-like performances that requires an elevated stage and good PA systems.
Different technical equipments and a 4-side colour television projection system are also present to project the performer's image onto a screen, so that audience sitting around the rear side of the stadium can also see clearly.
The Hong Kong Coliseum offers both open and sheltered areas for holding conventions and conferences. The demountable open stage provides the arena with an excellent forum for public assemblies as well as staging live television broadcasts of opening ceremonies.
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