The Basketball Arena in the London Olympic park is the main venue where the basketball events underwent, the other venue that the basketball events were played is the North Greenwich Arena (02 Arena). It has the capacity of 12,000 seats. It was supposed to be used for multi events such as Volleyball and Fencing; however, the Volleyball was moved to a new venue in Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Fencing was moved to the ExCel Arena near the Royal Victoria Docks. It was started to be built in 2009 and was finished to the mid-2011. The arena was designed by Wilkinson Eyre architects and two other manor architectural companies KSS Design grounp and Sinclair Knight Merz. Overall the building took only 15 months to build. To the end of the Olympics and Paralympics the venue will be used as a market or transported to Brazil for the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Olympic games. However there are still speculations that the majority of the venue will be recycled.
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| The 02 Arena |
The 02 Arena is in Greenwich Peninsula, London. It also hosted the Basketball events and was designed by Populous. It has the capacity of 20,000 seats and is one of the largest arenas in Europe.
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