Bristol City Council is planning to build a 12,000-seat indoor entertainment arena, to open by November 2017.
In November it selected five architects to compete for the design contract. It has now published a contract notice in the Official Journal of the EU for a contractor to take on construction of new arena. The council hopes to have a contractor in place by July.
The arena is to be built on the site of an old diesel depot next to Bristol Temple Meads railway station in the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
As previously reported, the five shortlisted design teams competing are:
- Grimshaw, Manica Architecture, Thornton Tomasetti, M-E Engineers and Neil Woodger Acoustics
- IDOM (in collaboration with Foreman Roberts and Nagata Acoustics)
- Populous / Feilden Clegg Bradley / Buro Happold / Vanguardia
- White Arkitekter with Arup
- Wilkinson Eyre with Arup.
For bidding details of the main construction contract, see our Contract Leads section.
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