The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center ( Chinese : 上海东方体育中心 ), also known as the Shanghai Aquatic Sports Center, is a sports venue next to the Expo Park in Shanghai 's Pudong New Area . It started construction on December 30, 2008, and was completed in late 2010. The total investment was two billion yuan .
5-639: The center has an indoor arena named Indoor Stadium seating 18,000, an indoor swimming pool seating 5,000, and an outdoor swimming pool also seating 5,000. The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center is close to Huangpu River and near the Oriental Sports Center station on the Shanghai Metro . The main venue at the sports complex is the Indoor Stadium , used for the home games of the arena football club Shanghai Skywalkers . It has
10-488: A capacity of 18,000 and it is used for various events, like arena football, speed skating, basketball, mixed martial arts, figure skating, swimming and eSports . The arena was designed by German architecture firm GMP . The facility sits on a man-made lake that connects to the Huangpu River. The sport center's area is 34.75 hectares (85.9 acres); the floor space is 163,800 square metres (1,763,000 sq ft). In
15-482: The Huangpu River via a bridge: A number lines of the Shanghai Metro cross underneath the river, including Line 12 , Line 4 , Line 2 , Line 9 , Line 4 (twice), Line 8 , Line 13 , and Line 11 (from north to south geographically). There are several roadways which cross the Huangpu river via a tunnel, including: There are currently several ferry lines operated by Shanghai Ferry . Numerous tour boats also ply
20-459: The Huangpu River. The Huangpu is the biggest river in central Shanghai, with the Suzhou Creek being its major tributary. It is on average 400 m (1,312 ft) wide and 9 m (30 ft) deep, and divides the city into two regions: Puxi ("west of Huangpu"), the traditional city center , and Pudong ("east of Huangpu"). The following roadways, highways, and railways also cross
25-501: The construction, the workers used 3,000 tons steel to build the architecture. [REDACTED] Media related to Shanghai Oriental Sports Center at Wikimedia Commons This article about a China sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Huangpu River The Huangpu ( pronunciation ), formerly romanized as Whangpoo , is a 113 km-long (70 mi) river flowing north through Shanghai . The Bund and Lujiazui are located along
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