SKA National Hockey Arena
A large-scale urban intervention for Saint Petersburg — the SKA National Hockey Arena anchors a campus of fitness-oriented parks, open-air amphitheaters, and food and entertainment venues, adding generous new green space to the city around a year-round civic destination.
Commissioned by the Russian Hockey Federation for Saint Petersburg, the SKA National Hockey Arena is conceived as a large-scale urban intervention rather than a single building. The arena anchors a campus that folds fitness-oriented parks, open-air amphitheaters, and food and entertainment venues into generous new green space — a year-round civic destination calibrated to the energy of ice hockey and the daily life of the city. The facade concept surrounds the 30,000-square-meter volume in an atmospheric cover that brings a forward-looking identity to the building.
Facade & Canopy
The tensile cable structure canopy uses mathematics and geometry to produce a floating cloud-like covering that plays against sunlight by day and motion-led lighting by night. The cables overlap and dance across the building’s cylindrical volume producing a wide array of exciting and beautiful visual effects and phenomena.
Plaza & Pop-ups
As the facade extends outward, it also produces a colonnade beneath it alongside the stadium’s circumference, creating shaded areas where modular pop-up pavilions are placed along an elevated plaza. The undulating facade, coupled with a metal and glass weather-tight enclosure at the face of the stadium, is designed to be a unique and unprecedented envelope to put the stadium on the world stage.
Park & Landscape
Asymptote developed the design for the park area surrounding the stadium. The concept of the landscape provides zoning for conducting different events and activities for the citizens. Including opened stadium, theater for live events and collection of movable pavilions.
