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The O2 Arena
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indoor arena in the O2, London
Key facts
- Full name
- The O2 Arena
- Former names
- North Greenwich Arena (during the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics )
- Location
- Greenwich , London , SE10
- Owner
- Homes England
- Operator
- Ansco Arena Limited ( AEG Live ) Europe
- Capacity
- 20,000
- Surface
- Versatile
- Public transit
- North Greenwich
- Built
- 2003–2007
- Opened
- 24 June 2007
- Architect
- HOK Sport (now Populous)
- Structural engineer
- Buro Happold
- Services engineer
- M-E Engineers Ltd.
- General contractor
- Sir Robert McAlpine
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stadium
- Named after
- O2
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Operator
- Anschutz Entertainment Group
- Location
- Greenwich Peninsula
- Sport
- tennis
- Official website
- www.theo2.co.uk
- Image
- O2 Arena.jpg
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- architect
- Populous
- native label
- The O2 Arena
- Commons category
- The O2 Arena
- maximum capacity
- 20000
- structural engineer
- Buro Happold Engineering
- date of official opening
- 2007-06-24
- different from
- O₂ arena
- social media followers
- 160066
- inception
- 2007-06-24
- associated electoral district
- Greenwich and Woolwich
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Encyclopedic overview
The O2 Arena, locally referred to as the O2, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the centre of The O2 entertainment district on the Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London, England. It opened in its present form in 2007. It has the third-highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom, behind Co-op Live and Manchester Arena, and in 2008 was the world's busiest music arena.
The arena and broader complex were built within the former Millennium Dome, a large dome-shaped building intended for an exhibition celebrating the turn of the third millennium. As of 2022, it is the ninth-largest building in the world by volume with a diameter of 365 metres (399 yards) and a height of 52 metres (57 yards). It is named after its primary sponsor, the telecommunications company O2, a subsidiary of Virgin Media O2. The nearest tube station is North Greenwich on the Jubilee line.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The O2 Arena” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.