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Basketball Arena takes shape at Olympic Park, London
Published: 31-Mar-2010
The 12,000-seat London 2012 Basketball Arena is rising out of the ground on the Olympic Park, with the first of 20 steel arches already lifted into place.
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The arena is being built by companies from almost every UK nation and region. The 35m-high, arching steel trusses, which span 96m, and 16 end trusses are being fabricated and assembled in Bolton, with steel mostly produced in Teeside.
Once the 1,000-ton steel frame of the temporary 115m long Basketball Arena is complete, it will be wrapped in 20,000 square meters of fabric cut in Bristol, which will form a canvas for an innovative changing lighting design during the games. The arena is on track to be completed by mid-2011, ready for test events.
The arena will host basketball preliminaries, women’s quarter-finals and handball quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. During the Paralympic Games, it will host wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. The arena will also house the athletes, before they make their way down to the stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies.
Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) chairman John Armitt says, “The Basketball Arena is taking shape in the new east London skyline alongside the Velodrome and Olympic Village."
The construction contractor will own the arena structure, with the ODA renting it for the duration of the games. Afterwards, the contractor will dismantle it to be reused elsewhere.
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