上海东方体育中心

SPD Bank Oriental Sports Center occupies 300 Yongyao Road in Sanlin, Pudong New Area, on the Huangpu River beside the former 2010 Expo site. Built for the 14th FINA World Championships in 2011 and now operated by Juss Sports, it is one of Shanghai's signature sports complexes. The 34.75-hectare site contains 188,000 sqm of floor area across four buildings — the main arena known as the 'Crown of the Sea', the swimming hall 'Magnolia Bridge', the outdoor diving hall 'Moon Bay' and the Oriental Sports Tower — linked by an 11 m podium, with an artificial lake and outdoor courts. The arena has 78,000 sqm and up to 18,000 seats, the largest indoor capacity in Shanghai, and can switch within 24 to 72 hours between a 50 m pool, a 60 m by 30 m ice rink and a 78 m by 47 m sports floor, suiting more than 20 sports from swimming and basketball to gymnastics, ice hockey and short-track speed skating. The swimming hall seats 4,945 around a 51 m by 25 m ten-lane pool, and the diving hall seats 4,753 with a 25 m by 30 m, 6 m-deep diving pool. Water is the unifying theme: the arena rises like a wave or sail, the swimming hall reads as layered breakers, and the outdoor diving platform sits on an island under a half-moon roof. Metro Lines 6, 8 and 11 meet at Oriental Sports Center station, with buses and parking nearby. The 15-storey Oriental Sports Tower adds a 735 sqm news hall on the ground floor and ten meeting rooms on its third and fifteenth floors.