Projects
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Completion: Dec 1999
- Capacity: 34,500
Westpac Stadium is the world's first modern purpose-built cricket ground and is also the home of New Zealand's other main sporting code, rugby. The unique design demonstrates a minimalist approach, with sightlines to accommodate a range of sporting codes, and a seating configuration to produce a sense of enclosure and intensity. The building's external skin of horizontally-striated reflective metal cladding has created a large sculptural landmark on the northern edge of the CBD. The stadium also includes offices, a sports medicine facility, cricket academy and a cricket museum.
The stadium was designed in an HOK Sport joint venture, Bligh Lobb Sports Architecture, in association with Warren and Mahoney.