Venues to boast local flavor

GUANGZHOU: Venues to be built for the 16th Asian Games will feature the architectural style of Lingnan, or South China, to better promote sports culture, an official of the Games' organizing committee said yesterday.

"We have attached great importance to the combination of local architectural style and the sports functions of new venues in terms of design and construction," Peng Gaofeng, director of the organizing committee's venues department, said.

Prior to the opening of the Games, as many as 12 new venues would be built and a number of old facilities renovated, Peng said.