Projects

O2 Arena and Millennium Dome

The O2 Arena sits within the former Millennium Dome – one of Buro Happold’s key projects of the late 1990s as a building within a building.

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Categories: Sports & Entertainment, Structural engineering, Fire engineering, Inclusive design, Geoenvironmental, United Kingdom


Arsenal Emirates Stadium

August 2006 saw the opening game at  the 60,000-seat Emirates Stadium in London, the new home for Arsenal FC, one of Europe’s most prestigious and successful premiership football clubs. This opening game marked the beginning...

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Categories: Sports & Entertainment, Structural engineering, Inclusive design, Safe & secure, SMART solutions, Building services engineering, Geotechnical, Geoenvironmental, United Kingdom


Central Stadium for Winter Olympics 2014

Developing a truly successful stadium design involves meeting a number of goals beyond simply creating a first class sporting arena. The list of additional demands for the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics...

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Categories: Sports & Entertainment, Building services engineering, Structural engineering, Lighting, Acoustics, SMART solutions, People movement, Geotechnical


Aviva Stadium

A shimmering, transparent form sitting on the famous Lansdowne Road site, the Aviva Stadium offers Dublin both a visually spectacular venue and the first truly ‘responsive’ stadium building of its type in the world, its form and...

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Categories: Sports & Entertainment, SMART solutions, Structural engineering, United Kingdom


Velociudad Speedcity Circuit

Argentinians have a passion for motorsport, but have not hosted a F1 event since the mid 90’s. This privately funded project would see the phased construction of a state of the art racing circuit and associated facilities in the heart of Argentina capable of hosting a FIA race. In addition to the 5.5km of FiA compliant track, the final scheme will house a training academy, driver training centre, an off-road park, two luxury hotels, serviced apartments, a conference centre, retail village, luxury clubhouse and numerous brand houses. The development is situated near the town of Zarate approximately 80km north of Buenos Aires, and will be constructed in two distinct phases. The first will see the construction of a 3.1km track and all supporting infrastructure, capable of hosting national race events with crowds of up to 30,000. Phase two will then develop the site fully with the view to becoming home to the Argentinian F1 Grand Prix.

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Categories: Sports & Entertainment, Sustainability, SMART solutions, Geotechnical, Utilities engineering, Transport planning, People movement


Palasport Oval Lingotto

Located in the southern part of Turin in the Lingotto district, the venue, features a 400m oval ice track and is the work of Buro Happold, HOK SVE and Studio Zoppini Associati, winners of an international tender for the project.

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Categories: Sports & Entertainment, Building services engineering, Structural engineering, Computational analysis, Italy


London 2012 Olympic Stadium

Buro Happold worked as part of ‘Team Stadium’ an integrated design and construction team led by Sir Robert McAlpine to deliver the Stadium which, in legacy, will be a world-class athletics venue for the communities within London and beyond.

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Categories: Sports & Entertainment, Structural engineering, Building services engineering, Fire engineering, Inclusive design, Safe & secure, Sustainability, Lighting, Computational analysis, Geoenvironmental, Geotechnical, United Kingdom