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March 16, 2005

Housing the Spectacle: The Emergence of America's Domed Superstadiums. I was about to make a "humorous" remark in another thread about the Houston Astrodome being the 8th Wonder of the World when I came across this site, which I think is pretty cool. Housing the Spectacle is a traveling multimedia exhibition tracing the post-WWII development of longspan, lightweight roof structures covering public stadia.

posted by HawthorneWingo at 02:47AM UTC [trackback] (5 comments total)

Lets not forget how they end up.

posted by steveno at 03:07AM UTC on March 16, 2005

Holy crap, Kingdome was built in 1976 and was demolished in 2000... what a waste.

posted by rolypolyman at 03:21AM UTC on March 16, 2005

I've never even seen any of those things from the outside in real life. Are any still up?

posted by Big Davey at 03:41AM UTC on March 16, 2005

I remember watching the BC Place stadium in Vancouver on the day in 1984 when they inflated the roof, an amazing sight. It's still standing and used regularly.
Cool link, Hwingo!

posted by islander at 04:08AM UTC on March 16, 2005

In other related news: spreading pneumonic plague in the bathrooms of an airport, sports arena and train station, killing 2,500 and sickening 8,000 worldwide

[Oh sorry, I read doomed Superstadiums... Really.]

posted by mare at 01:38PM UTC on March 16, 2005

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