拱墅运河体育公园体育馆

The Gongshu Canal Sports Park Gymnasium stands at 888 Fengtan Road in Gongshu District, Hangzhou. It is the southern indoor hall of the Canal Sports Park, whose layout places the gymnasium in the south and the stadium in the north, the latter shaped like an oil-paper umbrella and used for hockey. The gymnasium served as the table tennis and breaking competition and training venue for the Asian Games. It contains a competition hall and a warm-up hall, the latter in the annexe and connected to the main building by an underground passage. Total floor area is 58,395 square metres, with 6,852 seats during the Games against an organising committee figure of 6,928. The form takes its cue from the jade cong of Liangzhu culture, while the facade borrows the sheen and smoothness of silk to create a light, classical and highly recognisable volume. The competition hall was fitted out to top-level table tennis standards in terms of field of play, lighting and broadcast conditions, and can be converted quickly for other uses. The wider park covers 701 mu, or about 47 hectares, with roughly 185,000 square metres of building area, of which 47,000 square metres are above ground and 138,000 below. It is the largest new Asian Games venue cluster in central Hangzhou and the first urban sports park in Zhejiang to combine an arena, parkland, playing fields and commercial space. After the Games the gymnasium became a public fitness centre with a swimming pool, basketball courts and badminton courts. The site lies about 14.5 kilometres north-west of the Asian Games village and is approached from Fengtan Road, a main north-south artery in Gongshu District.