The Tacoma Dome
(constructed by Tacoma Dome Associates, led by McGranahan Messenger Architects, a design build entity) is an indoor arena located in Tacoma, Washington, USA, approximately 30 miles South of Seattle.
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History
Completed in
1983 for $44 million and opened on
April 21, the arena seats 20,000 for
basketball. It is the world's largest arena with a wooden dome in terms of total volume and seating capacity (23,000), with a diameter of 161.5 m (530 feet) and a height of 46.3 meters (152 feet)
[1]. The
Superior Dome in Marquette, MI is larger in diameter at 163.4 m (536 feet) but is only 43.6 meters (143 feet) high and only seats a maximum of 16,000
[2]. The Superior Dome is also not a
geodesic dome, it is a planar radian structure of glue-laminated beams.
The first concert in the Tacoma Dome was
David Bowie with
The Tubes as the opening act.
The arena hosted the
Seattle SuperSonics from
1994-
1995 while the Seattle Center Coliseum was being renovated into the venue now known as
KeyArena. It also hosted the
Tacoma Rockets Western Hockey League team from
1991 to
1995, the
Tacoma Sabercats of the
West Coast Hockey League from 1997 to 2002, The
Tacoma Stars indoor soccer team of the MISL from 1984 to 1992,
gymnastics events during the
1990 Goodwill Games, numerous other minor league
ice hockey and
indoor soccer teams, and many concerts as well. It additionally hosts wrestling events, such as
WCW Spring Stampede 1999.
Size
Unlike most other arenas of its size, the
arena contains little in the way of fixed seating so as to maximize the flexibility of the seating arrangements and of the shape of the playing field. It can even host
American football, albeit with seating reduced to only 10,000.
A wide range of high school athletics is played at the Dome, as the stadium features the
Washington Interscholastic Activities Association High School Championships in Football, Wrestling, 4A Basketball, as well as 4A and 3A Volleyball. The venue became home to the State High School Championships in Football in 2000 after the regular home, the
Kingdome, was demolished.
Art
The Tacoma Dome is also known for its controversial neon art, in 1984 the Stephen Antonakos piece displayed inside the dome was the subject of intense debate over public funding of artworks for public works projects.
Notes & References
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- Tacoma Dome - History
- Superior Dome | NMU Recreational Sports