Quzhou Stadium

  • Prize
    Winner in Architectural Design - Urban planning: large integrated projects
  • Company/Firm
    MAD Architects
  • Lead Designer
    Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano
  • Design Team
    LIU Huiying, Kin LI, FU Changrui, XU Chen, LI Cunhao, LI Guangchong, LI Gang, Iting LI
  • Architect
    MAD Architects
  • Interior Designer
    MAD Architects
  • Lighting Designer
    Ning's Field Lighting Design
  • Photographer Credit
    CreatAR Images, Aogvision
  • Location
    Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
  • Client
    Quzhou West District Development Committee, Quzhou Baoye Sports Construction and Operation Co., Ltd
  • Project Date
    10/20/2022
  • Project Link

Quzhou Sports Park is located in the new city zone in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province. The architect aims to create not only an urban space for sports and ecology, but also a unique land art park in the world, which would establish a cultural inheritance relationship with the city's landscape history. The design combines the functions of the stadium with the natural landscape, with concrete structures and earth shelter landscape, creating a piece of land art in the center of the city that resembles a volcanic cluster and a mirror lake. Despite its impressive 30,000-seat capacity, Quzhou Stadium was designed to appear as a continuation of the surrounding landscape rather than an object standing out against it. Unlike the typically fortress-like stadiums built in urban areas around the world, Architects was determined to build a stadium that would embed much of the technology that went into its production so that it can instead be open to the surrounding public space from nearly every angle.