stadiums
Design
2014 Winter Olympic Stadium Seems Designed By Insectoid Aliens
12:20AM Jesus Diaz | Don’t get me wrong. I think the 2014 Winter Olympics Stadium in Sochi, Russia, will look absolutely spectacular at night. It’s just that its translucent skin makes me a little bit itchy, because it makes me think of insect nests. More »
Sports
10:00AM Nick Broughall | It’s not the atmosphere. It’s not the history. It’s not the size, space or location. It’s the fact that you can get free Wi-Fi access within the grounds. More »
Why The MCG Is The Best Sports Stadium In Australia
10:00AM Nick Broughall | It’s not the atmosphere. It’s not the history. It’s not the size, space or location. It’s the fact that you can get free Wi-Fi access within the grounds. More »
Screens
Dallas Cowboys’ World’s Largest HD Video Screen Debuts
8:26AM Jason Chen | The 25,000+ square feet display just debuted today at the Dallas Cowboys stadium. It’s the world’s largest video screen. More »
Design
Doha’s ‘Wall’: The World’s First Underground Stadium
2:00AM Sean Fallon | When the new “Wall” Stadium set to be built in Doha, Qatar is completed in 2010, it will be the first underground stadium ever constructed. Nicknamed “The Laptop” for obvious reasons, the stadium will have no traditional floodlights. Instead, the lights will be embedded into the architecture, which adds to the clean futuristic look. Apparently, the unique underground design will serve as a natural air conditioning system of sorts, which saves money that could have been spent on a traditional domed, temperature controlled facility. galleryPost('wallstadium2', 3, ''); More »
Design
Chinese Farmers Build Birds Nest Stadium Out of Bamboo
4:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | The Beijing National Stadium, nicknamed “The Bird’s Nest,” has already become an icon in the country of 1.3 billion. But for some farmers close to Hangzhou (located in the southeast of China), the Herzog & de Meuron structure was just too darn far away… so in a fit of DIY ingenuity, they built their own replica out of bamboo. Steel’s apparently kind of hard to get when you’re living on a couple of dollars a day.
Gadgets
The Stadium of the FUTURE…Future…future
9:00AM Sean Fallon | Where will we be going to enjoy our sporting events in the future? What kind of amenities and features will the stadiums have to cater to our needs as fans? PopSci has investigated some of the up-and-coming technologies that we can expect to find in the stadium of tomorrow and compiled all of these innovations into a composite that includes the best design and technology features from a dozen cutting-edge stadium plans. More »
Screens
