Happy First Anniversary to Kai Tak Sports Park

1998 → 2026: A 28-Year Journey to Hong Kong’s “Home Venue”

Since opening on 1st March 2025, Kai Tak Sports Park has established itself as Hong Kong’s “Home Venue,” hosting nearly 50 major events and more than 120 international and local sports and entertainment days. The 50,000-seat Stadium alone has attracted over 1.9 million attendees, operating at nearly 90% utilisation

Adding to the accolades, the Park was voted Top Position in the Consumer Council’s “Top 10 Consumer News 2025” campaign, securing 7,530 “Most Liked” votes—a rare public endorsement of design excellence.

Our connection to this site, however, began long before.

1998: Planting the Seed
In a pro bono exercise with Arup, we sought the best location for Hong Kong’s next-generation stadium. On the apron of the disused Kai Tak Airport, we found it: rare space for a warm-up pitch beside the main stadium.

We proposed “SportsCity”—a 60,000-seater stadium with warm-up pitch, athletics track, sports centre, hotel, offices and retail—and presented it to government and public. The vision resonated so deeply that Kai Tak became the “natural” home.

The Decades Between: Honing the Vision
We were twice appointed to carry out feasibility studies refining the brief for this very plot.

Today: Delivering the Dream
Now a 28-hectare world-class sports infrastructure with 50,000-seat retractable roof stadium, outdoor courts, children’s play areas and fitness stations, the Park has welcomed over 1 million visits in six months.

Our role evolved:
📋 Stage 1: Lead Consultant advising the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau on reference design and worldwide tendering.
🏗️ Stage 2: Bureau’s representative, supporting Kai Tak Sports Park Limited to deliver the vision.

The public responded to spaces that work—because they were shaped by 27 years of thinking, testing and refining. From a pro bono exercise in 1998 to Hong Kong’s “Most Liked” consumer news in 2025. Some journeys are worth the wait.

Happy first anniversary to Kai Tak Sports Park. Here’s to many more.

Reference: https://www.consumer.org.hk/en/press-release/p-top10-consumer2025

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• Building Cadences: Leigh & Orange – Architects since 1874
• URBIS Limited