Winning team announced to design Basketball Arena

The 12,000 capacity Basketball Arena is one of the key temporary venues on the Olympic Park site. During the Olympic Games the arena will host the Basketball preliminaries competition. The arena will also host Wheelchair Basketball and Wheelchair Rugby competitions during the Paralympic Games.

ODA Chief Executive David Higgins said: ‘We have appointed a world class multi-disciplinary design team with the proven ability to deliver an innovative solution for the London 2012 Basketball Arena that is creative, efficient, economical and fit for a fantastic festival of sport.’

The winning design team is made up of Sinclair Knight Merz: Nussli International; Wilkinson Eyre; and KSS Design Group.

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