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Remember the Super Bowl Stadiums of the 2010s ⇒ This last decade has brought us amazing architectural wonders in the American football stadiums. This year, in the 52nd edition of the Super Bowl, won by the Philadelphia Eagles, the event occurred in a recent venue that never received the football finals before. In fact, most of the stadiums that hosted the Super Bowl in the 2010s were newcomers. Take a look and remember the Super Bowl stadiums of the 2010s.
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Images Source: Hard Rock Stadium (above) and Curbed Miami (below)
The 2010s begin and end in the same place: at Hard Rock Stadium, a multipurpose football stadium located in Miami Gardens, Florida, a city north of Miami. Besides receiving the Super Bowl for 4 times (1989, 1995, 1999 and 2007), the facility received the first Super Bowl of this decade and will also host the 2020 event. The venue opened in 1987 as Joe Robbie Stadium and has been known by a number of names: Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Land Shark Stadium and Sun Life Stadium. Home of the Miami Dolphins, the stadium had a vast flat roof added over its stands during upgrades in 2015. The building’s other architectural features include pairs of spiral walkways that connect its various levels at each corner and huge white spikes that carry the tensile cables holding up the canopy.
Images Source: Advocare Classic (above) and Musco Sports Lighting (below)
Previously known as the Cowboys Stadium, the AT&T Stadium played host to the Super Bowl two years after it was completed in 2009. The building’s curved roof is supported by two giant trusses that span end to end and has operable panels that allow the pitch to be opened to the elements. It replaced the partially covered Texas Stadium, which served as the Cowboys’ home from 1971 through to the 2008 season. The stadium is sometimes referred to as “Jerry World” after Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who originally envisioned it as a large entertainment mecca. The stadium seats 80,000, making it tied as the fifth largest stadium in the NFL by seating capacity with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Images Source: Wikipedia (above) and Hunt Construction Group (below)
This stadium in Downtown Indianapolis looks more like an oversized factory building that a sports venue, but the Colts have been playing there since it replaced the RCA Dome in 2008. The Lucas Oil Stadium is often referred to as “The House That Manning Built”, due to the success of the Indianapolis Colts during the tenure of Peyton Manning as their quarterback. In early 2006, prior to the construction of the stadium, Forrest Lucas announced that Lucas Oil had purchased the naming rights for $121 million over 20 years. The architectural firm HKS was responsible for the stadium’s design. Its pitched roof slides down sloped tracks, supported by large metal trusses on either side, while external walls are clad in terracotta-coloured panels that add to the industrial aesthetic. The implementation of these elements of kinetic architecture provides for quick conversion of the facility to accommodate a variety of events.
Images Source: AlliedPRA New Orleans (above) and Football Stadium Digest (below)
Often referred to simply as the Superdome, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome is a domed sports and exhibition venue located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It primarily serves as the home venue for the New Orleans Saints. Plans were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis and the building opened as the Louisiana Superdome in 1975. Nowadays, its steel frame covers a 13-acre expanse and the 273-foot dome is made of a lamellar multi-ringed frame and has a diameter of 680 feet, making it the largest fixed domed structure in the world. On October 3, 2011, it was announced that German automaker Mercedes-Benz purchased naming rights to the stadium. The facility holds the record for the stadium that received the Super Bowl more times, with a total of 7 (1978, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1997, 2002 and 2013).
Images Source: AXS.com (above) and Stadiums of Pro Football (below)
Located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in easy reach of New York City, this giant open-air venue is part of the Meadowlands Sports Complex and can hold up to 82,500 people watching New York Giants and the New York Jets play their home games. The MetLife Stadium is owned by the MetLife Stadium Company, a joint venture of the Giants and Jets. In 2011, MetLife, an insurance company based in New York City, acquired the naming rights to the stadium. At a construction cost of approximately $1.6 billion, it was the most expensive stadium ever built at the time it opened and is the second-largest stadium in the NFL in terms of seating capacity. HOK worked with designers Bruce Mau and Rockwell Group to create a variety of entertainment spaces throughout the complex, which was completed in 2010 and hosted the Super Bowl in 2014.
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Images Source: www.visitphoenix.com (above) and Ephesus Lighting (below)
The University of Phoenix Stadium is a multi-purpose football stadium located in Glendale, Arizona, west of Phoenix. Architect Peter Eisenman’s first foray into stadium design resulted in this metal-wrapped venue in Arizona, which boats the world’s first fully retractable playing field. Working with stadium specialist Populous, Eisenman chose a set of huge curved panels to enclose the seating and playing field, which shimmer in the desert sun. An opening on one side of the stadium allows the playing field to move to the exterior of the building, allowing the entire natural turf playing surface to be exposed to daylight and also allowing the floor of the stadium to be used for any other purpose (such as seating for concerts or to accommodate motorsports events) without damaging the turf. The University of Phoenix acquired the naming rights in September 2006, shortly after the stadium had opened under the name Cardinals Stadium. Two years after that, in 2008, the venue received its first Super Bowl, before hosting the event for the second time in 2015.
Images Source: Blogs (above) and San Francisco Chronicle (below)
Levi’s Stadium is a football stadium located in Santa Clara, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Built without a roof, the home of the San Francisco 49ers since 2014 is dominated by the team’s bright red across its 68,500 seats – two-thirds of which are located in the lower bowl, one of the largest of any NFL stadium. The venue is also expandable to accommodate 75,000 for events like the Super Bowl, which it hosted in 2016. The stadium is located approximately 40 miles south of San Francisco and is named for Levi Strauss & Co., which purchased naming rights in 2013.
Images Source: Houston Chronicle (above) and Consulting Engineers Group (below)
NRG Stadium, formerly Reliant Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium, in Houston, Texas, United States. The venue has a seating capacity of 71,795, a total area of 1,900,000 square feet with a 97,000 sq ft playing surface. NRG Stadium is part of a collection of venues (including the Astrodome), which are collectively called NRG Park. The entire complex is named for NRG Energy under a 32-year, US$300 million naming rights deal in 2000. The stadium was constructed at the cost of $352 million, becoming the first facility in the NFL to have a retractable roof. The venue received the Super Bowl last year, after hosting the event for the first time in 2004.
Images Source: SI.com (above) and Star Tribune (below)
This year’s Super Bowl was held yesterday at the new home of the Minnesota Vikings, recently completed by international firm HKS, which is behind several stadiums on this list. The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots in a 41-33 final score. The 66,200-seat US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis features angular protrusions, zinc cladding and a roof partly made of plastic film. Built on the former site of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the indoor stadium opened in 2016 and is the home of the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. It is the first fixed-roof stadium built in the NFL since 2002 when the Detroit Lions’ Ford Field opened. The overall budget surpassed the billion dollar mark.
Images Source: www.ajc.com (above) and YouTube (below)
Looking ahead to next year, America’s most-watched sporting event will take place at another new stadium. The Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a multi-purpose retractable roof stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in August 2017, the stadium was built to replace the Georgia Dome, which occupied a site next door before it was demolished in November 2017. The new structure has an exterior made up of giant triangular panels that overlap to surround seating for 71,000 spectators inside. The venue features a roof of ETFE plastic “petals” that retract like a camera aperture and holds the record of the world’s largest halo board. The total cost was estimated at $1.6 billion.
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