MAGIC BDN. European Basketball Capital.

The city of Badalona is the headquarters of one of the oldest basketball teams in Spain, DKV Joventut, which was founded in 1930 under the name Peña Spirit of Badalona, and achieved its greatest success in 1991 as European champion. The club is also one of the most emblematic elements of the city.

The scheme, which proposes to create a theme park related to sport and particularly the world of basketball, will increase the offer of shopping and leisure facilities in Badalona, and will provide DKV-Joventut with a project for the future that will ensure its economic viability. It will be a leisure centre with cinemas, bowling alleys, shops, a sports centre and a gymnasium.

Its most distinctive element will be a giant basketball 36 metres in diameter, within which the museum will be located. This sphere made with a variety of materials will contain two floors connected to each other and to the shopping and leisure area below it. It will be supported by a core for vertical communications rising from the underground parking floors to the upper floor of the sphere.

In urban planning terms, this scheme will reinforce the line from the port and the new sea front to the Municipal Sports Centre, the headquarters of DKV-Joventut.

The scheme includes the creation of a centre devoted to sport, leisure and shopping with a total floor area of 48,569 m2. The shopping area will occupy 12,500 m2 and the underground car park will have 1,239 places. A hotel with a floor area of 6,000 m2 will be built at a later date.