Gardens · Yorkshire & the Humber
Former Richard Dunn Sports Centre
Former Richard Dunn Sports Centre — a garden in england-yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Betty Longbottom — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Paid entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Former Richard Dunn Sports Centre is a garden of interest in england-yorkshire, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Richard Dunn Sports Centre is a 20th-century former sports centre in Odsal, an area of the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building featuring a distinctive Brutalist tent shaped concrete roof.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
Plans for the building were started in 1970 when Bradford’s city architect recruited final year architecture student Trevor Skempton to produce a feasibility study for a new sports centre. The proposed location at Odsal was previously a quarry which had since been used as a landfill site. Skempton's concept was inspired by Japan's Yoyogi National Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange and by German architect Frei Otto’s tensile structures. The design was an early example of computer aided design, using the Genesys Frame Analysis 2 computer programme to analyse data from wind tunnel testing which had been done on a 100th scale model. Construction was completed in 1978 and after initially being…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 53.7667, -1.7590
- District
- Bradford
- Parish
- Bradford, unparished area
- Postcode
- BD5 8NA
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bradford South
- Established
- 1978
Sources
- wikidata: Q111853411 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Richard Dunn Sports Centre (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Former Richard Dunn Sports Centre?
- Former Richard Dunn Sports Centre is in Yorkshire, United Kingdom (postcode BD5 8NA), in the parish of Bradford, unparished area.
- When was Former Richard Dunn Sports Centre built?
- Built or established in 1978.
- How do I get to Former Richard Dunn Sports Centre?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BD5 8NA. It sits within the Bradford South parliamentary constituency.