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.
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Lets not forget how they end up.
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Holy crap, Kingdome was built in 1976 and was demolished in 2000... what a waste.
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I've never even seen any of those things from the outside in real life. Are any still up?
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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!
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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.]