Zeidler Miklós: Sporting Spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)
National Sports Hall were annexed to it. In terms of management, the shooting range on Fehér út and the City Park’s Ice Rink also belong to the People’s Stadium as do the training camp at Tata, the ski jump (until its demolition) with its training camp, the skiers resort at Galyatető, the Dunavarsány kayak-canoe training camp, the sailboat base at Balatonföldvár and another training camp at Mátraháza. In 1957, in the course of a later reconstruction, the Jégszínház, or the Theatre on Ice, was created with the conversion of a training facility. In 1980 the theatre was closed down as its function was taken over by the Small Stadium, a construction built in 1961. Since it was opened, this open-air facility, which has a seating capacity of 13,000, has been the venue of innumerable figure-skating competitions, ice- hockey, handball, basketball, volley-ball and tennis games and even concerts and other cultural events. Built in 1972 and 1975 respectively, the Olympic Hall and the Hall in the Round are mainly used for light and heavy athletics events and training sessions; standing by a temporary building raised in a hurry, these facilities have assumed for a while some of the functions the Budapest Sports Hall had fulfilled before it was burnt down. Budapest Sports Hall A chapter in its own-and a sad one with which to conclude this survey-is the story of the Budapest Sports Hall, commonly known as BS. As the construction of a complex of sports halls was cancelled in 1941 with only one, smaller, building completed, the issue of a large arena remained on the agenda. The project was only started at the end of 1977 and it took another five years before the Budapest Sports Hall was finally inaugurated on 12 February 1982. The team of designers was headed by István Kiss, but as the floor was patterned, albeit carried out on that of the Jubilee Sports Hall in Leningrad, Russian structural designers were also involved in the work. The operation was further complicated by the fact that the construction of the Hotel Stadium nearby was in progress at the same time, not to mention the creation of footbridges and car parks belonging to the stadium or that of the bus sta60
