广东奥林匹克体育中心

Guangdong Olympic Sports Center is located at 36 Daguannan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, in the Huangcun area of Dongpu. It is bounded by the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway to the north and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen railway and Guangyuan Expressway to the south, with the university district of South China University of Technology and Jinan University to the southwest. The centre is a provincial facility under the Guangdong Sports Bureau and covers about 1 million sqm, comprising the main stadium, athletics facilities, a swimming and diving hall, hockey pitches and shooting ranges. The stadium, completed in 2001 for the Ninth National Games, has 328,000 sqm of gross floor area and 80,012 seats; it was renovated for the 15th National Games in 2025 and used for the opening ceremony and athletics. Its ribbon-like roof is the signature element, with 90,000 sqm of metal roofing and PTFE tensioned membrane after renovation. An 800 m elevated running track and 39,000 sqm of lawn were added at the second level, while the ground floor forms an arcaded all-weather concourse; seating is arranged in blocks of blue, red, purple and green, and entrances were regraded as gentle ramps for accessibility. An 8,000 sqm command centre will become basketball, badminton and squash courts for public use. Metro Lines 4 and 21 stop at Huangcun, Line 21 also at Daguannanlu, and bus and parking facilities serve events. Two great roof ribbons cross above the bowl and leave the centre open to the sky, so the pitch and track can keep hosting football, athletics and concerts after the Games.