Big Air Shougang, Sports complex in Gucheng Subdistrict, Beijing, China
Big Air Shougang is a permanent big air venue in Shijingshan District, Beijing, built on the grounds of a former Shougang Group steel mill. Its steep ramp is surfaced in bands of blue, yellow and green with white side walls, and a grey steel lattice framework with an elevator shaft and light poles stands beside it. The structure rests on a broad white base with a curved roofline, with four smokestacks and two cooling towers behind.
The site arose on the grounds of a steel mill that closed in 2011 due to pollution controls, while the facility itself was completed in 2019. The old cooling towers and factory halls remained as backdrop, and the new jump ramp was built directly beside them.
The facility turns one of Beijing's last large steel mills into a competition ground where concrete stands sit beside rusted cooling towers and old conveyor structures. Visitors experience the unusual contrast between modern ramps and the faded colors of the dormant industrial buildings around them.
Visitors reach the facility most easily by metro or bus and can spot the smokestacks from a distance. Tickets are available on-site or online when competitions run, while on other days only part of the grounds may be open.
Big Air Shougang is the world's first permanent big air venue, built on the grounds of a Shougang Group steel mill that closed in January 2011 over air pollution. Its ramp stands beside the plant's cooling towers and smokestacks, in a flat urban setting rather than a mountain. Construction ran from 2018 to 1 November 2019.
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