Bilbao Arena Building, Professional Basketball Stadium, Community Sports Centre Images
Bilbao Arena : Basque Sports Building
Basketball Stadium + Community Facilities in Northeast Spain design by Idom UK
2 Jul 2012
Bilbao Arena and Sports Centre
Design: Idom UK
Location: Miribilla, Bilbao, Spain
Address: Askatasuna Hiribidea, 13, 48003 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
RIBA Awards 2012 Citation:
Photos : Jorge Allende
Bilbao Arena
This 20,000 seat professional basketball stadium and community sports centre is perched on a grassy outcrop, its veil of green painted steel ‘leaves’ hanging five metres beyond the world-class basketball arena inside. This creates an exterior service zone (like the branches of a tree) for the building’s gloriously accessible array of air-handling equipment.
In total contrast, the sports centre is a cave carved from the ferrous rock. Low-level pool lighting and dark materials give this ‘local public amenity’ space an aura of five star hotel glamour and tranquility.
Bilbao Arena – Building Information
Scheme name: Bilbao Arena and Sports Centre
Practice: Idom
Client: Azpiegiturak
Photographs: Jorge Allende
RIBA Awards winner, 2012
New Bilbao Sports Centre building images / information from RIBA
Location: Bilbao, The Basque Country, north east Spain
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