Just the Place for Moving Events

This article depicts the new Phoenix stadium in Arizona and the application of steel to construct it. RDS steel detailers helped realize this unique design through a series of the details their Auckland office building. The shape of the exterior takes its form from a barrel cactus, featuring an outer skin of large smooth panels composed of double curved steel cladding alternating with dramatic vertical slots of glass. The Stadium's roof is another achievement for steel, a retractable roof comprising of two 50m by 75m retractable panels, each weighing 500 tones.


This is an extract from"Steel Australia, Vol 2, Num 1, March 2008" page 26-27