Tennis, Anyone? US Open 2016 Serves Up an Engineering Feat


The preeminent tennis tournament in America, the U.S. Open is back in full swing in Queens, New York, as of this week and continues into early September. Traditionally, the tail end of summer is a spectacular and dry period in the region, but in the last several years, the Open suffered delayed and even suspended key matches due to inclement weather. (Think back to 2008 when rain shut down the men’s semifinals with Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal.) So this year, the U.S. Tennis Association is armed and ready. Arthur Ashe Stadium, the main venue of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and the U.S. Open, promises to protect against rain delays with a newly completed retractable, domical roof. What visitors will encounter is actually a freestanding pavilion, however, built around and over the 23,711-seat stadium. Not only was the stadium incapable of bearing the extra weight of a new roof, the grounds of the tennis center was, as well: The National Tennis Center resides in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, site of a former ash dump and therefore not a stable foundation for a 1,000-ton roof structure. To resolve this, architecture firm ... , Sheila Kim, read more http://ift.tt/2bCA0rw

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