- Főnix Hall
Főnix Hall is a multi-purpose
arena inDebrecen ,Hungary . Fonix Hall holds 8,500 people and opened in2002 . It hosted the2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships .The arena was named after the
Phoenix , amythical firebird which is the symbol of Debrecen.Főnix Hall is located in Debrecen, which is the second largest city of Hungary, in a pleasant environment: close to the Nagyerdő area, near Road 4, along the thoroughfare to
Kosice called Kassai út. As you step inside the building through the main entrance, you immediately find yourself in the arena space. Along one of the longitudinal sides of the amphitheater, there are locker rooms and service facilities for the athletes, while the other side is actually a multifunctional area that can be freely divided with the help of relocatable partition walls. In our city, the demand had long been in the air for a state-of-the-art convention hall/arena with a larger than average seating capacity. The final impulse was provided by the possibility of acting as the host for the 2002 World Championship in Gymnastics. In fact, the plans for an already existing sports hall from the city ofTallin (Estonia ) were adapted to suit the local circumstances. The construction of Főnix Hall was completed in eight months.Since its inauguration, the hall has acted as the venue for a variety of events (such as
ice hockey , indoorsoccer ,basketball andhandball tournaments, hotair balloon andballroom dancing championships,ballet performances,music concerts , various exhibitions, conferences and evenice shows ). The long list of celebrities having performed here ranges from Olympic championSzilveszter Csollány and theheavy metal band Iron Maiden or the rockband Deep Purple through the pianistRichard Clayderman to conductorKobayashi Ken-Ichiro and singerBryan Adams , including a number of other famous athletes and artists.Főnix hall is the second largest arena in Hungary -
Budapest Sports Arena is the first (12,500), Faith Church's Hall also atBudapest is the third (8,000). The arena proper is fully surrounded with telescope-joint stands (and diagonally turned-in mobile bleachers in the corners). During concerts, the stage actually replaces the stand at the far end of the hall and the entire arena floor is available for the audience to occupy. The props and technical equipment required for the performances can be moved into the arena section through two larger size freight entrances that are 2.5 and 4 meters wide respectively. The gym storeroom next to the gates is accessible from several sides due to the huge sliding doors, and a configuration of several separately lockable storerooms can be arranged if necessary, including rooms for track and field, gymnastics, martial arts, or ice-skating. Even the largest sized apparatuses can be freely moved about. Behind the mobile bleachers, there is a series of other service venues: locker rooms for the athletes, doctors' rooms, changing rooms for the hall personnel, storage rooms, the electric substation room, the gym storeroom, and the fitness room. Főnix hall is connected to the adjacentImre Hódos Sports Hall through an underground passageway, so that the facilities could also be used during certain larger events for training or changing purposes or for offices, if necessary. The elevator serves this basement level, too, so the facilities are thus accessible even for mobility impaired athletes.Technical info
* external width: 76.63 m
* external length: 108.56 m
* external height: 21.1 m
* ceiling height of the arena floor: 14.4 m
* clearance under the projector: 11.4 m
* length of the arena floor: 70 m
* width of the arena floor: 43.8 m
* arena floor total area: 3066 m2
* number of floors: 4
* staircase-towers: 4
* elevators: 4+1
* seating capacity without the arena floor: 6480
* seating capacity with a stage arrangement: 7039
* seating capacity of the arena floor: 1280
* maximum number of spectators in the hall: 8500
* locker rooms for athletes: 6
* snack buffets: 7
* restaurants: 2
* seating capacity of the multifunctional room: 300
* parking spaces for cars: 455
* parking spaces for buses: 28External links
* [http://www.fonixinfo.hu/?lang=2 Official website]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=F%C5%91nix+Csarnok,+Debrecen&ie=UTF8&ll=47.542454,21.641092&spn=0.007213,0.013711&z=16&iwloc=addr Főnix Hall on Google Maps]
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