Stadium
DHL Stadium
Fritz Sonnenberg Rd, Green Point, Cape Town, 8051
Cable-hung glass roof of nine thousand panels held aloft without a single interior column.
This guide to DHL Stadium in Cape Town's Green Point poses an engineering puzzle: how nine thousand panes of glass, weighing thousands of tonnes, stay suspended overhead with not one column rising from the seating bowl below. It traces the replacement of the old stadium's ordinary steel roof ahead of the 2010 World Cup, and the translucent membrane underneath the glass that can stretch up to two meters under a strong wind before shrinking back. Look up at the rail and watch that membrane move with the breeze.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.