Taipei Arena

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Taipei Arena (臺北巨蛋)
Mini-Big Egg (小巨蛋)
N/A
Location	No. 2, Sec. 4, Nan-Jing E. Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Broke ground	Unknown
Opened	2005
Closed	N/A
Demolished	N/A
Owner	Taipei City Government
Operator	Eastern Media Group (東森集團)
Surface	Main Stadium - Unknown, Auxiliary Stadium - Ice
Construction cost	Unknown
Architect	Various
Former names
None
Tenants
Unknown
Capacity
Main Stadium - 15,082, Auxiliary Stadium - 800

Taipei Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei Arena is situated where the former Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium (built in 1958, opened 1959, demolished 2000) used to be. It was designed by Archasia, an architectural firm established in Taipei. After its completion, Taipei Arena began operation on December 1st, 2005, under the operatorship of Eastern Media Group (東森集團), which won the bid to operate Taipei Arena for 9 years.

The main arena has an adjustable floor space, its minimum floor space is 60m x 30m, and can be extended to 80m x 40m.

The Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League (CTIHL) plays out of the auxiliary arena.

The auxiliary arena is a 60m x 30m ice skating rink.

[edit] Trivia

Although Taipei Arena was designed and built for sports purpose, it holds more art and cultural activities, such as live concerts, than sports events after opening in 2005. Moreover, games have to be played without large-sized electronic scoreboards since they have yet been set up.^[1]