Us Open Tennis Roof Construction

Construction on the new louis armstrong stadium began in the fall of 2016 when the old stadium and adjoining grandstand.

Us open tennis roof construction.

Open tennis tournament turns 50 this year and its extreme makeover is nearly complete. With the completion of the retractable roof over arthur ashe stadium and the other enhancements on campus the billie jean king national tennis center is expected to draw an extra 10 000 people day during the us open increasing attendance to 1 2 million visitors. This will boost the economic impact numbers well above the current 756 million. The stadium is named after arthur ashe winner of the 1968 inaugural us open the first in which.

Arthur ashe stadium is a tennis stadium at flushing meadows corona park in queens new york city part of the usta billie jean king national tennis center it is the main stadium of the us open tennis tournament and the largest tennis stadium in the world with a capacity of 23 771. New york the u s. The us open roof on the arthur ashe stadium and louis armstrong stadium was designed by rossetti architects and it s structure engineered by wsp global. Construction of the united states tennis association s usta 100 million retractable roof for arthur ashe stadium which will eventually eliminate fears of rain delays at us open tournaments.

While the whole re construction of the louis armstrong stadium with the roof had cost 600 million. Design of the us open roof. The three year construction of the roof over arthur ashe stadium is boiled down to a minute in this time lapse.