SPORTS CONVENTION AND ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES

0
418

This work offers practical experience-based guidelines for planning, designing, building, managing and financing amphitheatres, arenas, convention centres, stadiums and special-use facilities. Insight is given into what works, what doesn’t and why, using case studies of over 70 projects. Topics covered include: similarities and differences in development strategies for different types of facility, financing operations and construction costs; selecting sites; building design; and the economic impacts on the community. The case studies include: The National Indoor Arena, Birmingham; The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London; Seidensticker Hall, Bielefeld, Germany; Austria Center, Vienna; Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice, France; and Le Palais des Congres de Paris, France.Â