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While the boom in huge media displays is levelling off slightly, operators continue to equip their venues with contemporary solutions for signal distribution to monitors and screens throughout the building.
The project that recently eclipsed everything and was on everyone’s lips in the field of event infrastructure and event technology was without a doubt “The Sphere” in Las Vegas. The largest dome structure in the world, at a price of almost 2 billion euros, whose façade with 54,000 m² of LED modules is the largest LED display in the world, supplemented on the inside by a display with a surface area of 15,000 m². And the visual media that give the 112 m high sphere its versatile face and interior are by no means the only superlative.
There are also 164,000 loudspeakers and, of course, a lot more technology in front of and behind the scenes. 18,600 audience seats turn the gigantic installation into a venue. Here, unprecedented live entertainment productions can be marvelled at. Sport, boxing for example, which requires little in the way of specific sports facilities, will be possible. For the time being, however, we do not consider “The Sphere” to be a sports or multifunctional arena. The type of building is too different, the technical parameters are not comparable enough.
The development line of large multifunctional arenas in the USA has recently produced spectacular construction projects with groundbreaking display constructions from the East to the West Coast. Examples include: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas (2016); Little Caesars Arena, Detroit (2017); UBS Arena, Elmont/New York (2021); Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle (reopening in 2021). This momentum lost some steam recently. But with the Intuit Dome in Inglewood/L.A., another mega-project is currently being implemented. Once again, the US market leader Daktronics has been commissioned with the visual media.
Denver Broncos: 25 LED displays totaling 2,230 square meters.
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