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Jeddah Sports City

Proposed by Laceco to the city’s governorate, the Jeddah Sports City constituted an integral part of the New Central District master plan, with the aim of helping the Saudi city act as a regional and international hub for hosting high caliber sporting events and enhancing its national role in promoting sports. Its landscaped areas complement the green buffer bordering the city’s New Central District as well.

The Jeddah Sports City incorporates an Olympic stadium with athletic facilities and a seating capacity for 50,000 persons and a multipurpose indoor arena for 12,000 spectators. The flexible character of both the stadium and the arena increases the type of events that can be hosted while the large training camp can further serve as a rented facility for the multiple sporting activities of private teams. The Jeddah Sports City master plan also allows for the founding of related functions such as youth sports clubs and a doping control center.

Tripoli Sports City

The project is an extension of the existing Tripoli Stadium and aims at converting it to a Sports City. Covering an area of around 68,500 m², it will incorporate the following:
– A 4,000-seats multipurpose hall,
– Outdoor Olympic swimming and diving pools,
– Covered training pool,
– Open mini football and tennis courts,
– Gymnastic training hall,
– Underground parking,
– 50-room motel, and
– Related facilities and services

Beirut Municipal Stadium

Reconstructed as part of Lebanon’s hosting bid for the 8th Pan Arab Games, the Beirut Municipal Stadium consists of a multipurpose olympic football stadium seating 15,000 spectators along with an athletics track, VIP lounges and press facilities. The project consisted of preparing all design drawings related to the stadium, as well as executing and supervising external works related to the operation of the overall facilities, including venue landscaping, water supply, sewage networks, storm water network, underground water reservoir and chillers.

The parking’s built-up area is around 16,945 m² on a flat ground. The structure comprises:

• Ground floor,
• Mezzanine,
• Seven floors,
• Roof as kids’ park area1 with greenery around, and
• Five underground floors.

Main details of project components are as follows:

• Region: Mazraa – Saeb Salam Boulevard, Beirut
• Plots net areas: Two adjacent plots; one is 1,419 m². and the second 583 m² add up to 2,002 m² located on two roads.
• Total number of floors: Ground floor+Mezzanine+7 floors+5 basements.
• Total built up areas: 16,945 m²
• Retail area: 686 m² (Shops on ground level)
• Parking net area equals 10,786 m²
• Parking capacity: 361 cars.
• Park area is 1,011 m².
• Kiosk area is 60 m²

Saida Municipal Stadium

The Beirut Sports City stadium symbolizes the rise of war-torn Lebanon from the ashes and constitutes the architectural equivalent of Lebanese reconstruction efforts. It has successfully placed Lebanon back at the forefront of regional and continental sports with the hosting of the 1997 Pan-Arab games and the 2000 AFC Asian Cup.

A tight reconstruction schedule, coupled with ambitious project specifications further heightened the difficulty of the challenge. The multipurpose Beirut Sports City stadium is 67,000 m2 in size and accommodates more than 50,000 spectators; the 10,430 m2 indoor hall seats 3,300 spectators.

The external works, including landscaping and parking facilities accommodating 2,600 cars, occupy a 50,000 m2 surface area. All utilities are concentrated in a massive 700 m elliptic tunnel with a 3.5 x 3.0m section. In addition to a 10,000 m2 water reservoir, a 7 km water supply and sewage network and 18 km of storm water networks were also executed as part of the project.

Beirut Sports City

The Beirut Sports City stadium symbolizes the rise of war-torn Lebanon from the ashes and constitutes the architectural equivalent of Lebanese reconstruction efforts. It has successfully placed Lebanon back at the forefront of regional and continental sports with the hosting of the 1997 Pan-Arab games and the 2000 AFC Asian Cup.

A tight reconstruction schedule, coupled with ambitious project specifications further heightened the difficulty of the challenge. The multipurpose Beirut Sports City stadium is 67,000 m2 in size and accommodates more than 50,000 spectators; the 10,430 m2 indoor hall seats 3,300 spectators.

The external works, including landscaping and parking facilities accommodating 2,600 cars, occupy a 50,000 m2 surface area. All utilities are concentrated in a massive 700 m elliptic tunnel with a 3.5 x 3.0m section. In addition to a 10,000 m2 water reservoir, a 7 km water supply and sewage network and 18 km of storm water networks were also executed as part of the project.