滨江体育馆

Binjiang Gymnasium, known to residents as the Little White Bowl, stands at 996 Jianghong Road in Binjiang District, Hangzhou. Construction began in September 2014 and the hall opened in October 2017 with 58,224 square metres of floor area covering a main competition hall and a warm-up hall. Total capacity is 5,000, made up of 4,000 fixed and 1,000 retractable seats, while 4,143 seats were used during the Asian Games. The design takes a flower as its prototype; the outer shell is cut back into rhythmic petals that echo the Big and Little Lotus of the Olympic Sports Centre, although the public prefers the bowl nickname. Before the Games it was a basketball hall built to NBA standards, with a floating demountable floor of imported Canadian maple and cold air outlets beneath or behind every spectator seat. The Asian Games upgrade ran from October 2020 to June 2022. Two glass pavilions were added outside, a three-storey media centre to the east and a two-storey security centre to the west, together with 8K cameras and AI chips that track activity in the stands in real time. The hall hosted badminton during the Asian Games and Asian Para Games and was designated a model venue by the organising committee. It opened for public operation on 1 April 2024 with badminton and basketball among the available sports. It was the first comprehensive sports facility in Binjiang genuinely open to the public, and after the Games it set aside free sessions, with badminton courts normally released for booking seven days in advance. Coaches run youth badminton and basketball classes there on weekday evenings and at weekends.