Us Open New Stadium Roof

The two sided video board center hung from the stadium s roof weighs more than two million pounds.

Us open new stadium roof. After suffering successive years of event delays from inclement weather a new lightweight retractable roof was completed in 2016. Arthur ashe stadium roof closing for the first time at us open tennis tournament 2016 us open arthur ashe kids day 2016. The day honors the legacy of tennis legend and former american world number. New york the latest on on the u s.

That s about 800 000 pounds heavier than the dallas cowboys video board at at t stadium. When the new armstrong debuts almost the entire campus will have been. The new retractable roof over arthur ashe stadium at the usta billie jean king national tennis center will be ready when the us open begins aug. Two years later the retractable roof over arthur ashe stadium was completed and a new 8 000 seat grandstand opened.

The underlying ground in corona park was not stable enough to support a new 5 000 ton roof placed on top of the cavernous 24 000 capacity arthur ashe stadium so instead it has been built as a. The stadium is named after arthur ashe winner of the 1968 inaugural us open the first in which professionals could compete. For 40 years louis armstrong stadium played host to some of the most memorable moments in tennis history. The original stadium design completed in 1997 had not included a roof.

Open tennis tournament all times local. Sofi stadium is a porous indoor outdoor year round complex featuring yes a 70 000 seat stadium and lots of parking but also a 2 5 acre public plaza an adjacent 6 000 seat performance space. The three year construction of the roof over arthur ashe stadium is boiled down to a minute in this time lapse. Four time us open champion john mcenroe joined internationally acclaimed musician wynton marsalis and former new york city mayor david dinkins in officially opening the new louis armstrong stadium at a.