The Silverdome Roof

The teflon coated inflatable roof was the stadium s most famous feature leading the way to its new name the silverdome in 1976 but also its biggest problem.

The silverdome roof.

After a storm shredded the roof in 2012 the silverdome has spent the last few years open to the elements the centerpiece of a battle between the facility s current owner and local government. With a seating capacity of 82 666 it was the largest stadium in the national. Andreas began making plans to transfer the higher football league to silverdome. However the next collapse of its inflatable roof in january 2013 due to a winter storm destroyed all such plans.

When the stadium opened it featured a fiberglass fabric roof held up by air pressure the first use of the architectural technique in a major athletic facility. The pontiac silverdome also known as simply the silverdome was a stadium in pontiac michigan it opened in 1975 and sat on 199 acres 51 ha of land.