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Built when the 8th National Games of the People’s Republic of China was held in Shanghai in 1997, Shanghai Stadium has gained a reputation of being a multi-use facility. It will be host to the football preliminaries in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and has an international standard evergreen soccer field and a plastic track and field race venue.
The stadium is one of the largest football stadiums in the world, with a seating capacity of 80,000. It covers 190, 000 square meters and has the world’s largest cantilevered steel truss roof with a fabric roof canopy, which spans 300 meters. Three rows of circular, all-weather bleachers and 100 deluxe booths adorn the stadium’s interior.
Project: Shanghai Stadium
Owner: Shanghai East Asia, Ltd., Shanghai, China
Architect: Shanghai Inst. of Architectural Design & Research, Shanghai, China
Engineer: Weidlinger Associates, New York, New York
Market Sector: Stadium
Material: PTFE
Location: Shanghai, China
Completed: 1997 |
