Shenzhen Bay Sports Center Stadium
Multi-use stadium nicknamed Spring Cocoon, built on reclaimed bay land for the 2011 Summer Universiade.
This guide to Shenzhen Bay Sports Center Stadium starts with a satellite photograph taken one morning in August 2019, showing military vehicles and paramilitary police filling the stadium grounds -- an image that quickly traveled around the world. It steps back eight years to August 2011, when President Hu Jintao opened the Summer Universiade here for athletes from a hundred and fifty-two countries, and to the building's nickname, Spring Cocoon, for its rippling perforated-steel shell built on reclaimed bay land. It also follows the stadium's ordinary life outside that image -- concerts, basketball games, and a student robotics competition that fills the arena floor each summer.
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