Tainan City Government has launched an open int'l contest "for a 30-hectare baseball stadium and training complex." Located in the city’s coastal Annan District, the project will deliver a new 25,000-capacity "int'l standard" stadium with "administrative and broadcasting facilities." A second "deputy" stadium and two little league arenas "will also be delivered on the 30-hectare site which is opposite the National Museum of Taiwan History." Tainan is home to the Uni-President Lions baseball team (ARCHITECTS JOURNAL, 10/28). ... Plans for a new world-class golfing destination in the heart of Qatar's Education City, Doha, were unveiled Tuesday in Shanghai at the Golf Business Forum. The project comprises of an 18-hole championship golf course, an innovative 6-hole championship course, a 9-hole par-3 course all designed by two-time major winner Jose Maria Olazabal as well as high-tech driving range and practice facilities, a center of excellence and a public park featuring a host of indoor and outdoor activities. Qatar Int'l Golf Club also features female-centric practice facilities in an effort to open up the game to more Muslim women (Qatar Int'l Golf Club). ... The National Planning Casework Unit is to decide Tuesday whether the stadium for Cornwall Rugby Union in Truro is "acceptable in planning terms." Campaigners are "urging the county's MPs to back the privately funded project, saying it will bring major economic benefit." It follows approval by Cornwall Council planners in July "who agreed that the scheme should go ahead" (WESTERN MORNING NEWS, 11/3).
