广工体育馆

The Guangdong University of Technology gymnasium stands at 100 Waihuan West Road on the university's Higher Education Mega Centre campus in Panyu District, Guangzhou, close to the Central Ring Road. The building has 14,050 square metres of floor area and provides 3,204 fixed seats, 188 seats on the main rostrum and 1,650 movable seats, and the floor can be set for handball, basketball, volleyball or badminton. Its plan is a simple square and the exterior is deliberately plain; together with the adjoining covered sports hall it forms a pair of venues capable of staging domestic B-level competitions. Handball at the 2010 Asian Games was played here between 13 and 26 November. The university's sports college now manages the hall through its venue centre, using it for teaching, squad training, the annual sports meeting and large events and taking bookings from students and staff through an online system. The cricket ground lies immediately to the east, so the two make up the university's sports quarter within the mega centre. Metro Line 4's Higher Education Mega Center South station is about 730 metres away, buses on routes 4 and 86 stop on campus, and Waihuan West Road links the site to the other universities and to the Nansha Port Expressway. Dormitories and canteens stand nearby, so spectator and athlete routes can be separated using the campus ring road. Competition, warm-up and spectator areas are kept relatively separate so that they can be zoned on match days, and the runoff around the court suits a fast, edge-to-edge game such as handball.