Basketball Arena in London

To the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London have constructed the portable basketball arena.

The 2012 Olympic Games which will take place in London, will be rather burdensome for the British budget. For example, for the Olympic Stadium are invested more 500,000,000 pounds. Besides it, in plans the tens of Olympic objects, sport arenas, and infrastructural complexes. Among the Great Olympic objects is possible to name the Center of Water-sports (by Zaha Hadid), and the 1st Cable Car in London.

Basketball arena in London

But, if the rope-way is necessary to London and after Olympic Games, but the huge basketball stadium it's a absolute anchor for a city. So for economy of the Olympic budget the decision to build portable arena for this sport was accepted.

Portable Olympic Arena

Element of arena
2012 Olympic Arena

The project of the Basketball Arena which can accept simultaneously twelve thousand spectators, will be developed by the architectural and engineering companies: Sinclair Knight Merz, Wilkinson Eyre and KSS. The main feature of this arena consists that arena will be created from easily erected elements that has allowed to erect all complex for 15 months.

Thus, after the termination of the Olympic and Paraolympic Games this basketball stadium will be quickly disassembled. But not for ever. Further, the basketball arena can be collected again in any place.

Interior of Basketball Arena

Olympic arena, London
Basketball, London
Olympic object, London

Such portable arena will allow to save ten millions pounds. And, if it will be possible to sell this stadium it's even better.

Rope-way, Thames, London

In London constantly are under construction the most modern infrastructural objects of type of new Wembley Stadium or the Big London Eye, but there never was a rope-way. However this city lack will be fast eliminated. The Mace Group has declared the intention to construct the 1st cable car in London.
Today, the capital of Great Britain actively prepares for 2012 Summer Olympic Games. All forces and all city resources are thrown on creating an infrastructure necessary for this grand action. And, if artificial clouds, most likely, are not constructed — the rope-way will appear in this city by next summer.

Legendary Mace Group Projects

Mace Group company is known in London thanks to infrastructural projects of a new formation. It has erected already mentioned big wheel the London Eye, the London City-Hall (residence of Administration of the Greater London), skyscraper «Shard London Bridge» and many other architectural objects. Thus, in a year, in the track record of Mace Group will also the first rope-way in London.

One station of this new kind of the London transport will be on the Greenwich Peninsula near huge entertainment complex «O2». The second — on other party of Thames, around the central input in the British Museum. The length of this cable car: about 1 km. There are suspicions that a cable car will use, first of all, not as public transport, and as tourist way.