Kai Tak Sports Park spotlights completion of Main Stadium exterior building façade panels

February 19, 2024

Karen Sweaney

Hong Kong sport and entertainment destination, Kai Tak Sports Park, has marked a significant milestone today with the successful completion of the Main Stadium exterior building façade panels. This architectural accomplishment adds to the new skyline of the Victoria Harbour at Hong Kong Kowloon East.

Designed with the captivating theme ‘Pearl of the Orient’, the Main Stadium showcases a meticulously crafted surface formed by about 27,000 aluminium panels as part of the multi-layered façade, each tactfully shaped into signature design triangular pieces, adding to its visual appeal.

The façade design allows for the shifting of different colour hues including mountain blue, metallic purple, metallic silver and other colours depending on the degrees of brightness of natural daylight. This transformative feature lends a contemporary and cosmopolitan aura to the district.

John Sharkey, Project Director of Kai Tak Sports Park shared “The completion of the exterior wall works at Kai Tak Sports Park represents a remarkable milestone, showcasing our project team's unwavering commitment to excellence and their relentless pursuit of creating a world-class sports and entertainment destination.

“This achievement not only transforms the iconic skyline of Victoria Harbour but also signifies significant progress towards our vision of establishing a premier sports hub. Anticipating the arrival of athletes, sports enthusiasts, and visitors from around the globe, we eagerly look forward to sharing the extraordinary allure of Kai Tak Sports Park.”

Leveraging pioneering proprietary coating technology, the ‘pearlescent’ coloured panel surfaces have been endowed with self-cleaning capabilities and long-lasting durability, effectively combating the impact of dust and rainwater on the exterior walls. This represents an unsurpassed commitment to design excellence, functional superiority and advancements in industry technology.

Throughout the course of the design and construction process, the project team actively employed various advanced digital technologies for incorporation into a comprehensive Building Information Model (BIM). This model served as a robust platform for data analysis and verification, seamlessly integrating all facets of the exterior façades, including the external structure, dimensions of triangular panels, and other related building components, such as glass wall and LED façade lighting, etc.

Through adjustments and refinements to the actual dimensions and installation positions of the triangular panels, the team successfully reduced the original panel quantity of over 47,000 panels to just 27,000 panels for this 50,000-seat Main Stadium. This accomplishment serves as a distinctive illustration of our adherence to the 3S concept of Standardisation, Simplification, and Single Integrated Element during the planning design and construction process, with a view to enhancing efficiency of work execution, minimising the need for extensive field works and ensuring effective budget control. With these measures, installation of the façade panels for the entire Main Stadium took only eight months.

In anticipation of the substantial completion of nearly 85% of the construction works, the Kai Tak Sports Park is now stepping into its final stage of construction. Kai Tak Sports Park is poised to become a vibrant and magnetic sports hub in the near future for promoting sports in the community, supporting elite sports and promoting Hong Kong as a centre for major international sports events. Distinguished by a wide variety of international standard sports facilities and captivating design, the Park will become one of the unparalleled sports infrastructures for hosting the highly anticipated 15th National Games in 2025 jointly hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau.

As the largest sports infrastructure project in Hong Kong, the major facilities within the precinct are expected to be completed in phases by the end of 2024 for opening in 2025.

Images from top: Kai Tak Sports Park Main Stadium exterior building façade panels; the Kai Tak Sports Park is now stepping into its final stage of construction.

About the author

Karen Sweaney

Co-founder and Editor, Australasian Leisure Management

Artist, geoscientist and specialist writer on the leisure industry, Karen Sweaney is Editor and co-founder of Australasian Leisure Management.

Based in Sydney, Australia, her specific areas of interest include the arts, entertainment, the environment, fitness, tourism and wellness.

She has degrees in Fine Arts from the University of Sydney and Geological Oceanography from UNSW.

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