An arena for disciplines of mind and body · Hyde Park, London
The Hyde Park Colosseum
A fusion of brain and brawn
Five rows of stands under a ring of tensile sails, wrapped by a colonnade of travertine tubes. On the arena: a podium for competitive debating at its heart, with chess, boxing, sumo, sword fighting, arm wrestling, rope pulling and fencing around it.
+3.50debating podium, the arena at +1.00
52tubes in the colonnade, 5 m apart
90 × 69 moutside the facade, east–west by north–south