杭州体育馆

Hangzhou Gymnasium stands at 210 Tiyuchang Road in Gongshu District, Hangzhou. Its predecessor, the Zhejiang Provincial People's Gymnasium, was begun in 1966 and opened in 1969, and the building is now a municipal heritage site and one of the city's landmark sports structures of the twentieth century. It was designed by the architect Tang Baoheng with a saddle-shaped suspended cable hull, a form that won an outstanding architectural creation award from the Architectural Society of China and is described as the only surviving example of its kind anywhere. The main structure was retained and strengthened with eleven new load-bearing cables. From September 2018 the hall was one of the first 33 Asian Games venue projects and underwent a full upgrade guided by a principle of repairing the old as it was. Work concentrated on restoring the facade, enhancing its distinctive character and lifting functional standards, producing 34,203 square metres of floor area, 4,300 seats and an underground car park with 180 spaces. The gymnasium hosted boxing during the Asian Games. It reopened to the public in July 2022, staged 37 events at various levels in 2024 including CBA Guangsha home games, and in 2025 added concerts and public lectures. Companies and institutions can book cultural and sports activities on 0571-85179603. Day to day the hall runs badminton, table tennis, squash and dance sport sessions under a low-fee and free-access policy it has maintained for years, and it sits within the old city core a few hundred metres from the Zhejiang Daily offices. Its programme also includes public lectures on sports medicine, and the hall has become a fixture on the city's indoor events circuit.