静安体育中心

Jing'an Sports Centre occupies 116 Wenshui Road in Jing'an District, at the south-east corner of the Wenshui Road interchange on the Middle Ring Road and beside Wenshui Road station on metro line 1. Funded by the district government and opened on 17 September 2017, it is the largest public sports venue in Jing'an and has become a northern Shanghai landmark under the name Sky City: in a dense central district it stacks the stadium onto the roof, using vertical layering to solve a land shortage and exemplifying the city's strategy of building upwards for sports space. The site covers 61,733.8 square metres with a total development size of 87,544 square metres and 71,291 square metres of floor area, about 44,880 of it above ground. Inside are a 5,600-seat multi-purpose arena, two basketball courts, two volleyball courts, four tennis courts, sixteen table tennis tables, twenty badminton courts and a natatorium with a standard pool and a children's pool, able to host a thousand people exercising at once. The roof is the signature move: a standard outdoor football pitch of about 16,200 square metres at 13 metres above ground, with six running lanes and a small grandstand, the first rooftop standard football ground in Shanghai, whose running track is free in set hours. Designed by the Shanghai Architectural Design and Research Institute, the complex stacks the arena, the fitness halls and the rooftop stadium vertically, with horizontal bands and transparent glazing keeping the mass light; the roof pitch is enclosed by safety netting and floodlights, so from Wenshui Road at night it reads as a floating field. China Resources Culture and Sports Development (Shanghai) operates the centre. It closed for renovation in 2022 and fully reopened on 1 July 2023 after upgrading the pool, badminton courts, retail areas and power capacity. Day to day it serves swimming, badminton, basketball, tennis and junior coaching, and also takes small competitions and entertainment events. Wenshui Road station on metro line 1 is about 390 metres from exit 2, the Middle Ring Road ramp is next door, and bus routes are dense in the area.