Basketball Arena
The Basketball Arena for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics was located in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London. The arena was designed to be fully recyclable, and was dismantled in January 2013, the seating was sold to Barnet owner Tony Kleanthous to be used in the construction of The Hive Stadium.Photo: jon smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Stadium
- Description: Temporary venue of the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Also known as: “Olympic Basketball Arena”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lee Valley VeloPark and London Stadium.
Lee Valley VeloPark
Stadium
Lee Valley VeloPark is a cycling centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London, England. It is owned and managed by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, and it was opened to the public in March 2014. Lee Valley VeloPark is situated 720 feet northwest of Basketball Arena.
London Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Arne mueseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
London Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the Stratford district of London. It is located in the Lower Lea Valley, 6 miles east of central London. London Stadium is situated 3,700 feet south of Basketball Arena.
London Blossom Garden
Garden
Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The London Blossom Garden is a memorial garden to honour the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in London, England, planted near the London Stadium in the London Borough of Newham. London Blossom Garden is situated 640 feet southwest of Basketball Arena.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Village and Temple Mills.
East Village
Neighborhood
East Village is an area in Stratford, East London that was designed and constructed as the Olympic Village of the 2012 Summer Olympics and has been converted for use as a new residential district, complete with independent shops, bars and restaurants.
Temple Mills
Neighborhood
Temple Mills is a district located on the boundary of the London boroughs of Newham and Waltham Forest, with a small part also in Hackney in east London.
Hackney Wick
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hackney Wick is a neighbourhood in East London, England. The area forms the south-eastern part of the district of Hackney, and also of the wider London Borough of Hackney.
Basketball Arena
- Categories: arena, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Newham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Basketball Arena” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Basketball Arena”
- Bulgarian: “Баскетбол Арена (Лондон)”
- Bulgarian: “Баскетбол Арена”
- Catalan: “Basketball Arena”
- Chinese: “倫敦奧運籃球館”
- Danish: “Basketball Arena”
- Dutch: “Basketball Arena”
- Finnish: “Basketball Arena (Lontoo)”
- Finnish: “Basketball Arena”
- Finnish: “Lontoon koripalloareena”
- French: “Basketball Arena”
- German: “Basketball Arena”
- German: “Olympic Basketball Arena London”
- Hebrew: “הארנה לכדורסל (לונדון)”
- Hebrew: “הארנה לכדורסל”
- Indonesian: “Arena Bola Basket Olimpiade”
- Indonesian: “Arena Bola Basket”
- Italian: “Basketball Arena”
- Japanese: “バスケットボール・アリーナ”
- Kazakh: “Баскетбол Арена (Лондон)”
- Kazakh: “Баскетбол Арена”
- Kazakh: “Баскетболдық Олимпиадалық арена (Лондон)”
- Korean: “배스킷볼 아레나”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Basketball Arena (London)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Basketball Arena”
- Norwegian: “Basketball Arena”
- Persian: “سالن بسکتبال لندن”
- Polish: “Basketball Arena w Londynie”
- Romanian: “Arena Basketball din Londra”
- Russian: “Баскетбольная арена”
- Russian: “Баскетбольная олимпийская арена в Лондоне”
- Serbian: “Кошаркашка арена”
- Serbian: “Кошаркашка олимпијска арена (Лондон)”
- Serbian: “Кошаркашка олимпијска арена”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Basketball Arena (London)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Basketball Arena”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Košarkaška olimpijska arena (London)”
- Spanish: “Arena de Baloncesto de Londres”
- Spanish: “Basketball Arena”
- Swedish: “Basketball Arena”
- Turkish: “Basketball Arena”
- Ukrainian: “Баскетбольна арена”
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