MAD Architects initiates construction of massive Quzhou Sports Campus in China


Beijing- and Los Angeles-based MAD Architects has started construction work on the 570,000 square meter Quzhou Sports Campus in China, where the architecture firm will help bring a cultural and recreational complex to life. The project is being developed in collaboration with PWP Landscape Architecture, EADG, and structural consultant Schlaich Bergermann Partner.

The large urban park includes a 30,000-person stadium, a 10,000-person gymnasium, a natatorium, outdoor auxiliary training grounds, athlete service and experience center, a science and technology museum, and “children’s place.”

Rendering of the hilltop structures. Image courtesy of MAD Architects.

The buildings designed to be embedded within the ground, according to the architects, “whereby the façade disappears into the terrain, covered by greenery so that it becomes the landscape itself.” 

Ground level view showing the landscape and buildings merging into one. Image courtesy of MAD Architects.

The designers continue: “Whi...

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