The new National Velodrome and Badminton Centre on the Sport Ireland Campus in west Dublin "will be available to local and national teams from the whole community", according to the new long-term masterplan for the campus launched in Dublin today.
This video, below, also offers a look at the exterior and interior of the new facility as well as placing it in the wider context of the Sport Ireland Campus as it expands and develops in the years to come - as set down the new campus plans.
Sport Ireland's masterplan claims the "new facility will become a landmark venue both locally and throughout Ireland" and would help "promote the benefits of cycling to the wider community" as well as being used to develop high performance.
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"The northern part of the campus is a landscape of large open sports fields and training pitches, with an architectural language driven by large ‘big-box’ sports facilities such as the existing National Indoor Arena and the proposed National Velodrome and Badminton Centre," the plan adds.
"In contrast to this, the southern part of the campus is a more naturalistic and organic landscape, animated with pockets of woodland, public trails and smaller, pavilion-type buildings."
The masterplan specifies "the immediate development focus" for the evolving campus "will include the construction of the National Velodrome and Badminton Centre". It is "proposed to commence construction" on the velodrome and badminton centre "as part of a proposed ‘cycle hub’ at the north of the site in 2023".
