Geiger Engineers Page 7 Selected Tensile Membrane and Cable Structures

Geiger Engineers Page 7 Selected Tensile Membrane and Cable Structures

Geiger Engineers Page 7 Selected Tensile Membrane and Cable Structures Tokyo Dome (Korakuen Stadium), Tokyo, Japan. Japan's first all weather domed stadium, housing more than 60,000 seats, is the home-park for Central League's Yomiuri Giants baseball team and can be used for other sporting events as well. The Stadium is covered by an air- supported fabric roof, which utilizes state-of-the-art pressurization and control technology. Geiger Associates were consultants to Takenaka Corporation. Completion Date: 1988 Construction Cost: $25-30 million Olympic Gymnastics Arena, Seoul, South Korea. This 15,000 seat, multi-purpose facility was the site of the 1988 Summer Olympics gymnastic competition. The arena is used for gymnastics, basketball, boxing and entertainment events. The facility is covered with an insulated yet translucent fabric Clad-cable dome roof system with a clear span of 120 meters that was engineered by Geiger Associates. This roof structure was the first example of the Cabledome system built in the world. Construction Cost: $7.0 million Completion Date: 1986 Canada Harbour Place, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Canada Place, claimed to be the most photographed building in Canada, is a unique, mixed-use complex, which was built on an existing pier in Vancouver's harbor for the 1986 World Exposition. A key element of the complex's unique architecture is the sculptural tensile structure roof of the main exhibit hall. The Canada Pavilion for Expo '86 was housed in the main exhibit hall, which now serves as the British Columbia Trade and Convention Centre. In addition to the main exhibit space, the Canada Place complex includes a cruise ship terminal, Vancouver's Pan Pacific Hotel, office, retail and ancillary spaces. Covered by a tensile membrane structure roof, the main exhibit space has 102,000 square feet of 170-foot wide clear span floor area. Geiger Associates, Ltd. were designed and engineering consultants for the exhibit hall roof. Construction Cost: $140 million CDN Roof Cost: $ 5.2 million CDN Completion Date: 1986 .

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