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This article reports that the Association of Tennis Professionals, tennis's governing body, has announced that the Qi Zhong Stadium, the first phase of a new $200 million tennis facility in Shanghai, will be completed in September 2005. The project is being designed and built by a Chinese team, including the Xian Dai Architectural Design Company, the China Construction Third Bureau, Jiangnan Heavy Industry Co., and the Shanghai Mechanical Construction Company, which is responsible for the roof.

Chinese developer Beijing North Star has awarded Great Britain-based RMJM, the commission to design the Beijing Olympic Green Convention Center, one of the 2008 Olympic Games' key venues. RMJM beat out competitors that included OMA, Philip Cox Architects, and KMD with a design that straddles several different sites of the games and includes elevated piazzas and pedestrian bridges. The biggest challenge of the project, says Gordon Affleck, an associate director for RMJM based in Hong Kong, China, is that the convention center is supposed to include historic themes from the Qin Dynasty because it sits midway on the games' main boulevard. The convention center, just under 3 million square feet, will be located near many other key sites, including the main sports stadium, the swimming complex, and the Olympic Park.