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Guangti Gymnasium, formally the Guangzhou Sport University Asian Games Basketball Hall, sits inside the Heyong compound of Guangzhou Sport University at 1268 Guangzhou Avenue Middle, Tianhe District. It was built for the basketball tournament of the 2010 Asian Games, with about 14,500 square metres of floor area, of which some 13,000 square metres is above ground and 1,500 below, plus 2,800 square metres of external works; it seats around 5,000 spectators and provides 120 car spaces and 200 bicycle spaces at a cost of RMB 59.01 million. The design was won by the Guangdong Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute, and its facades alternate colonnade and glass, the columns borrowing from the arcaded qilou of Lingnan street architecture so that sunlight through the columns and glazing produces a shifting solid-and-void effect. It is a small venue by Asian Games standards but a well-resolved one. During the 2010 Games it hosted the men's basketball competition; afterwards it passed to the university for teaching, training and varsity fixtures, and it opens to neighbouring residents in scheduled slots. For the 15th National Games in 2025 the hall was comprehensively renovated and hosted the men's under-20 volleyball tournament and the breaking events, making it one of the few Guangzhou venues to carry two competition programmes; the university upgraded campus circulation, warm-up areas, media zones and the lighting and sound systems for the Games. For organisers the advantage is a professional hall inside a campus: the seating scale suits basketball, volleyball, breaking, esports and mid-sized concerts, the floor is competition-grade timber, the lighting meets international competition levels, and the university can supply stewards, officials and training staff at a lower operating cost than a purely commercial arena. The constraint is campus management: events must be scheduled around teaching, spectator entry and security screening sit at the campus boundary, and load-in times and noise limits for large concerts have to be agreed separately with the university. The site fronts Guangzhou Avenue Middle, with Linhexi station on metro line 3 and Guangzhou East railway station both within a short walk or shuttle ride, so visiting teams arriving by rail reach the hall in about ten minutes.