With almost 12,000 athletes from 45 Asian countries and regions participating in its latest iteration in Hangzhou, China, the Asian Games is the world’s largest sporting event outside of the Olympics. Like the Olympics, the event’s host cities have long struggled to activate their venues and sites after the festivities. Nobody wanted a repeat of Beijing 2008, where Herzog & de Meuron’s celebrated “Bird Nest” now sits empty much of the year, or much less a rerun of Athens, where venues from the 2004 Games have largely been abandoned.
The most recent Asian Games, branded as Hangzhou 2022, took place last fall. (It was delayed a
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