With soccer fever bursting around the world and locally in anticipation of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, we thought that only South Africa was building monster stadia! Well, the Australian city of Melbourne will be opening the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium in 2010- pffff talk about shining on S.A’s shine! Anyway- hate aside, the Australians are huge sports fans and we have no doubt that it’ll be put to great use. The $200-million rugby and soccer stadium was designed by Australian outfit COX Architects, and has a capacity of 31,000.
A short walk from the Melbourne city center, the stadium is expected to add to the wonderment of the city’s Olympic Spots Park and Entertainment Precinct. The roof will be covered with thousands of LED lights that can shine in many colors. They will be programmed to follow patterns that mimic the crowd’s energy during a match- soccer with Victory or rugby with Storm- or any other game or event.
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