The collapse happened overnight after 17 inches of snow accumulated on the stadium roof the day before the vikings were slated to play the new york giants.
Minnesota new stadium roof.
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The minnesota vikings whose stadium roof has collapsed five times are among them.
The 248 000 square feet of roof sits atop 10 story glass doors facing downtown minneapolis which will open and close.
Bank stadium is an enclosed stadium that almost feels.
Minnesota s etfe roof will not be lighted but the spaces around it will giving it a glow of changing colors including vikings purple.
The stadium does not have a roof but there is a canopy above the top deck.
The high tech plastic roof on the new minnesota vikings stadium looks like something from a household kitchen a wobbly paper thin surface that could be used as a cutting board.
The last collapse at the metrodome which is the former home of the vikings was in 2010.
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Sixty percent of the colossal venue some 248 000 square feet of it will be covered solely.
The roof that isn t there using the nation s largest etfe roof and pivoting glass doors the new home of the nfl s minnesota vikings u s.
It is the first fixed roof stadium built in the nfl since ford field in detroit which opened in 2002.
Minneapolis opening the roof over the new home of the minnesota vikings would have forced planners of the 975 million project to eliminate some of the fancy features.
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Look higher for the clues to this tongue twister all the way up to the roof of minnesota s new stadium.
Allianz field is a soccer specific stadium currently under construction in the midway neighborhood in saint paul and the future home of major league soccer franchise minnesota united fc.
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