Danish Sportspark Win for Buro Happold
Buro Happold’s Glasgow office in collaboration with Henning Larsens Tegnestue and Danish landscape architect Sophie Sahlqvuist has won the competition to design a new sports park in Gentofte, Copenhagen.
The successful proposal will realise the integration of new facilities for elite sports and amateur training within the existing sports grounds.
The new Sportspark will include 22,600m2 of buildings consisting of a multipurpose sports hall, a gym, a sports hostel, a restaurant, conference facilities, a new 3,400 seat performance hall and a 1,250 seat ice arena.
External facilities occupying an a 180,000m2 area will include a 4,000 seat performance stadium suitable for athletics, cricket and skateboarding.
Rod Manson, Buro Happold partner comments: “This is a very high profile development in Denmark which will be a distinctive architectural form on the landscape. We are delighted with the appointment and the opportunity to develop sustainable engineering solutions for this sports complex.”
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Further information from:
Laura Hughes
Telephone +44 (0)141 419 3036
Fax +44 (0)870 787 4146
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Email laura.hughes@burohappold.com
