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Beijing Cadillac Center

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MasterCard center generally refers to Beijing Cadillac center

Beijing Cadillac center, formerly known as Wukesong stadium, is the competition venue for basketball events in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. It is located in the northeast corner of Wukesong bridge on the West Fourth Ring Road of Beijing, adjacent to Wukesong station of Metro Line 1, with a construction area of 63000 square meters. It is divided into competition floor, first floor, box floor and three floors, and can accommodate 18000 spectators.

Beijing Cadillac center is one of the few professional basketball stadiums in China that can compete with NBA stadiums - comfortable upholstered seats. There are 18000 seats in the venue, all of which are soft seats; advanced display system. The top of the stadium is equipped with a funnel-shaped display screen system imported from the United States, which can be lifted to any position. The four side screens can also be put into the eight side screens and be lifted to the roof. The lifting system of rigging and mother frame is rare in China. The dead weight of the main frame is 14 tons, and it can lift 50 tons, and it is equipped with weight measuring elements, which can visually display the counterweight to ensure safety; spacious backstage loading and unloading area. On the first floor of the venue, there is a large one-stop loading and unloading area with top, which is directly connected to the backstage and venue area, and a five-star backstage functional area. There are plenty of dressing rooms, changing rooms, rest rooms, workrooms and other functional rooms, which can provide comfortable working environment for teams and large working teams; NBA standard basketball scoring system. The venue is equipped with Dako all spor5000 time and score system, advanced lighting and sound system.

Construction history

Original intention of construction

While meeting the needs of the 2008 Olympic basketball games, Wukesong stadium also takes full account of the utilization after the games. Wukesong Cultural and Sports Center, which is composed of Wukesong baseball field and other cultural and sports facilities nearby, will also become an important place to meet the commercial, cultural, sports and leisure needs of residents in the western community of Beijing.

Construction process

On March 29, 2005, the foundation stone laying ceremony of Wukesong Gymnasium was held, and the construction officially started

. The owner of Wukesong Gymnasium is Beijing Wukesong Culture and Sports Center Co., Ltd., which is a project legal entity through global public bidding. It is responsible for the investment, construction and long-term operation of the whole Wukesong Culture and Sports Center, and becomes the first legal entity to formally sign a development agreement with BOCOG

. On January 11, 2008, Wukesong Gymnasium was completed and put into use

.

Stadium structure

structure

Roof structure

The axis span of the roof of the competition hall is 120 × 120 meters, and the roof structure is supported on 20 columns arranged along the periphery of the building. According to the requirements of the architect for the roof structure layout, the bidirectional orthogonal truss system is adopted. In order to reduce the dead weight of the structure, the steel structure is adopted, and the metal roof panel is used for the roof. It is hinged.

In order to make the roof structure system more reasonable, the truss in both directions are made into the form of variable height. The height of the truss in the middle of the span is 9.3m, and the height of the truss at the support is 6.3m.

Foundation structure

The natural foundation scheme is adopted. Based on the characteristics of the project, the axial force of each vertical bearing component is very different, and the span is also different. Therefore, according to the actual situation, it is proposed to adopt strip foundation under column, independent foundation under column, strip foundation under wall and local raft foundation respectively. Water resistant board is used to solve the problem of building waterproof.

Locker Room

Wukesong Gymnasium has designed six players' changing rooms. In group games, four of them can be used at the same time. The gate of the venue room is about 2.3 meters. Considering the size of the basketball players, the 2.3-meter-high gate is designed to be 2.5 meters when building the venue, which is convenient for the "giant" to enter and leave freely.

characteristic

The exterior wall of Cadillac center in Beijing is made up of more than 21000 pieces of golden aluminum plates. The aluminum plates are well arranged. From a distance, they seem to have the rhythm of life

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There are 45 boxes on the second floor, 29 large boxes and 16 small boxes. The box layer is decorated with Bamboo Ceiling and floor, and the wall is made of Australian sandstone. Different from the plastic seats used in other venues, the 18000 seats in the basketball hall are all red upholstered seats, which are very comfortable and humanized. The wide seats can accommodate people who are slightly fat, and people will not feel tired even if the competition lasts for a long time. In addition, for the convenience of disabled spectators, there are eight prominent small stands on the second floor of the stadium, each of which can accommodate five wheelchair spectators.

Below the second floor of the stadium, the cast-in-place reinforced concrete frame shear wall structure is adopted, and the frame shear wall structure system is composed of the wall and frame beam column of the elevator hall and the pipe shaft. In the second floor and above, only a few shear walls can be arranged due to the requirements of the building function. In order to ensure the overall stiffness of the upper structure, eight column supports are arranged along the periphery of the building in the height range from the second floor and above to the bottom chord of the roof truss. Form the cast-in-place reinforced concrete frame shear wall steel support structure system.

Design concept

Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium will be "green, science and technology, humanities" Olympic three concepts work throughout the design, construction and equipment selection of the whole construction process, rain flood utilization, nano easy clean glass, roof steel structure sliding technology and other projects fully reflect the Olympic three concepts, clever use of advanced layered design techniques, set up outdoor sunken square, form a double entrance space To avoid high steps and realize the diversion of spectators, athletes, officials and managers and indoor accessibility.

Wukesong Basketball Hall will become one of the few competition venues designed for basketball events in China. This feature is reflected in many aspects, such as competition venue, grandstand, players' changing room and so on. Wukesong basketball hall has designed six players' changing rooms. In group games, four of them can be used at the same time. These changing rooms are designed according to high standard professional basketball game, and equipped with wardrobe, toilet and other facilities for players. The interior design of each changing room is basically the same. After the end of the Olympic Games, the whole Wukesong Cultural and Sports Center will become an important place to meet the commercial, cultural, sports and leisure needs of residents in the western community of Beijing. After the game, the operation will be mainly to undertake basketball games, and various large-scale basketball games at home and abroad will be considered to be held here. In addition, it can also undertake all kinds of artistic performances and concerts, which are open to the public at ordinary times, and will also charge certain ticket fees and activity fees

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Function

January 2008 - Olympic Song promotion party

The event aims to celebrate the 200 day countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games. International stars, including Jay Chou, Zhou Huajian, Huang Xiaoming and Huang Shengyi, performed brilliantly in the venue.

April 2008 - Good Luck Beijing International Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament

2008 Beijing Olympic Games test race. Six national women's basketball teams from China, the United States, New Zealand, South Korea, Australia and Cuba have played 18 games with great success.

August 2008 - basketball match of Beijing Olympic Games

A total of 76 men's and women's basketball games were held in the venue. More than one million people watched the match, including leaders from 15 countries, such as former US President George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, as well as sports stars such as David Beckham and Diego Maradona. In the famous Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team with Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian as the main force played against the American men's basketball dream team led by Kobe Bryan and LeBron James. About 21000 spectators attended the game. In addition, it attracted about 300 million TV viewers around the world, setting a world record for watching a single basketball game.

October 2008 - Avril Lavigne's "beautiful bad things" concert in Beijing

Popular rock star Avril lavini made her debut in Beijing at Wukesong stadium, attracting more than 11200 fans.

October 2008 - NBA China

More than 15000 spectators watched the fierce match between the NBA Golden State Warriors and the Milwaukee Bucks.

October 11, 2009 - NBA China

As the first sports event after the upgrading of Wukesong stadium, Denver Nuggets' game against Indiana Pacers put nearly 15000 fans in the ocean of basketball joy. There are many die hard fans like Liu Ye in the audience.

October 23, 2009 - Beyonce's concert in Beijing

Beyonce's "it's not me" World Tour Beijing concert, which was praised as "the most expected concert of 2009" by the global media, was performed in Wukesong stadium, attracting nearly 10000 fans. With her passionate performance and strong music, Beyonce's unique charm of no suspense makes the "no one else" Beijing concert the most popular one in Beijing in 2009! Pan Weibo, awaking, Tengger and Li Yong vied for tickets to watch, and Christy Chung was pregnant and didn't miss such a wonderful performance.

December 13, 2009 - Harlem fancy basketball show

Harlem style

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