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Figure 1-18
Arabian Tower Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2000
(Photograph with permission from Maqsood Ahmed, Principal Engineer, Specialty
Structures, Affan Innovative Structures)
Also in 2001, the Seoul World Cup Stadium was designed as one of the venues for
the 2002 World Cup soccer games. The architect was the Beyond Space Group in
Seoul, and the fabric-and-glass roof was engineered by Geiger Engineers of Suffolk,
New York. The majority of the roof membrane uses PTFE/fiberglass, but glass was
used for portions of the roof to permit enough sunlight for the grass to grow. (Natural
turf is a requirement for Cup matches.) This means that the entire 44 000-square-
meter roof is either translucent or transparent. The canopy is a unique spatial
network of truss elements suspended from 16 masts as shown in Figure 1-19 (David
Campbell, Geiger Engineers, personal communication, July 18, 2002).
Figure 1-19
Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, Korea, 2001
(Photograph courtesy of Geiger Engineers)
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