广州自行车轮滑极限运动中心

The Guangzhou Cycling, Roller-Skating and Extreme Sports Centre occupies the central lake area of the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre on Xiaoguwei Island, Panyu District. It was built for the cycling and roller-skating events of the 2010 Asian Games and consists of a velodrome, a roller-skating track and an extreme-sports zone. The site covers 152,992 square metres with 26,642 square metres of building, of which the velodrome accounts for 11,692, the roller track 3,450 and the extreme-sports hall 11,500. The design works around four ideas — extreme, core, spin and wind — translating the speed, strength and skill of action sports into architectural form. The velodrome's shape responds to the hot, wet southern climate by borrowing the arcaded qilou street, with shaded verandahs on the east and west so that spectators queue and disperse out of the sun; the roller track sits on the southern part of the site, open to the air and half-enclosed by its stands; and the extreme zone strings bowls, ramps and platforms into a continuous course. From 13 to 26 November 2010 the Asian Games track cycling, BMX and roller-skating competitions were held here. Afterwards the complex became the core of the Mega Centre's extreme-sports park, which began trial operation on 12 October 2014 and opened fully on 1 January 2015. Today the park holds the velodrome with its 250-metre timber track, a 200-metre speed roller track, a BMX dirt track, a 16,000-square-metre skate park and a 7,000-square-metre climbing wall with eight speed routes, twenty lead routes and twelve bouldering routes, one of the highest-specification climbing walls in Asia; the 2016 World Youth Climbing Championships and the China Climbing Open from 2017 to 2019 were held here. For event owners the value lies in an action-sports setting with open ground: skate, roller, BMX and climbing competitions can be staged as they are, and brand pop-ups, youth culture festivals and music events can use the bowls and ramps as stage scenery. Most of the site is outdoors, however, so schedules in the rainy season and the hottest months need a backup plan.