Sculpting a Sports Landscape: ZHA’s Fluid Architecture for the Greater Bay Area

Zaha Hadid Architects shapes a cohesive sports campus that merges fluid form with climate-responsive performance. Anchoring Guangzhou’s Nansha District, the Greater Bay Area Sports Centre emerges as a unified, high-performance sports campus shaped by fluid geometries and calibrated environmental response. Its 70-hectare footprint integrates a 60,000-seat stadium, 20,000-seat arena, aquatic centre, and landscaped waterfront park into a coherent architectural language that prioritises experience, efficiency, and climate resilience. The contextual challenge is twofold: creating a civic landmark at the gateway to the Greater Bay Area while addressing the subtropical monsoon climate and the site’s waterfront vulnerability. The design tackles this by […]